Worlds most beautiful language
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:18    Post subject: Worlds most beautiful language
humpers survey to find out what's the worlds most beautiful language.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:23    Post subject:
Out of those, I'd say Spanish.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:25    Post subject:
well, you cannot really judge the beauty of a language if you dont speak it. I find beauty in many languages just from the way it sounds. But there is also beauty in the way a language can create metaphors and logic and can help communicate ideas.

your poll is also flawed because it misses many languages like russian for example and has two very similar languages two times (spanish & portuguese, german & dutch).
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:30    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
Out of those, I'd say Spanish.


I try adding more options to the poll, but then I had to remove more than half of those, the forum won't allow more options, anyway, left the most important ones, not that the others weren't important, but where the lesser known.

anyway I voted Japanese, not only because I love the Japanese pronunciation but also because there's something different about it to every other languages, even the asian ones.

Lutzifer wrote:
well, you cannot really judge the beauty of a language if you dont speak it. I find beauty in many languages just from the way it sounds. But there is also beauty in the way a language can create metaphors and logic and can help communicate ideas.

your poll is also flawed because it misses many languages like russian for example and has two very similar languages two times (spanish & portuguese, german & dutch).


I totally agree with your statement, and that is why I made this thread, you have a notion of language beauty very similar to mine, but different people may find a langauge beautiful for different reasons and also everyone finds beauty different in some level.

about the languages, as I said above I added more, I left the ones that are more well known and widely spoken, if the language you want to vote is not above, just reply. it's not my thread that is flawed, it's the forum, something that I hope will be fixed soon Laughing Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:30    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
Out of those, I'd say Spanish.


Can't say then when I live 35 mins away from Mexico. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:33    Post subject:
I miss turkish on the poll *pff*...
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:37    Post subject:
KrAzY-KaMeL wrote:
LeoNatan wrote:
Out of those, I'd say Spanish.


Can't say then when I live 35 mins away from Mexico. Laughing

I was talking about Spanish Spanish, not Mehican Spanish. There is a slight difference.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:41    Post subject:
Wait a minute, why isn't there an Arabic option?

You can't tell me this doesn't sound like the best language ever?


Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:43    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
Wait a minute, why isn't there an Arabic option?

You can't tell me this doesn't sound like the best language ever?


Laughing


there was that option, but then, this is about the worlds most beautiful language, not the ugliest Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:45    Post subject:
Ronhrin wrote:

about the languages, as I said above I added more, I left the ones that are more well known and widely spoken, if the language you want to vote is not above, just reply. it's not my thread that is flawed, it's the forum, something that I hope will be fixed soon Laughing Very Happy


forgot about the poll-constraints, sorry.

and i actually voted german. Not because its my native language but because i actually think, that - from the languages i have had experience with - is the most versatile. It is not only great for poems because of its onomatopoeia and its multitude of double entendres inherent in it, but also for its logic, which made it the world-wide language of science before ww2.

And it is great to declare a war in Twisted Evil
well, spanish or japanese sounds awesome for that too Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:46    Post subject:
Arabic (or Hebrew for that matter) not beautiful? You lie!
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:48    Post subject:
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Arabic (or Hebrew for that matter) not beautiful? You lie!


jiddish beats both hands down Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:51    Post subject:
About German, for some reason whenever I hear someone speak it, it sounds like he's always barking orders... There was a spoof of the German language on a Hebrew show here, when Angela Merkel was here in Israel. They had her calling her son and saying good night and singing a lullaby. It was so funny, they practically made a Hitler's speech into a lullaby... Laughing

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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:53    Post subject:
It's like they say, if you want a really bad dog, the trainer must be a german speaker, it's a ruthless language, but I actually like it Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:56    Post subject:
I voted Japanese because it has a soft sound. So does Hindi. Some Afican lang's has a soft sound as well. Punjabi not so much. Cantonese and Mandarin give you such a headache. Ohh , Maul al la tete. (my french is sucks)
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 02:58    Post subject:
japanese coming out of a girls mouth = bliss


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:01    Post subject:
A tight run between german, english, italian and japanese... Can't really say I speak any of the others there. Since I'm not native to neither of them I had to go with german considering what Lutzifer said. Its very versatile and useful when using logic or metaphores aswell. English could take that place too, but I don't know, german is simply more appealing. Japanese is horrible when it comes down to that simply because its high contextual and sometimes it can get rather frustrating trying to say something in a certain way but you simply can't. On the other hand, its an interesting language - but not good enough. I'd say mandarin would win that clash if it would've been about asian languages.

Besides, german simply sounds better. Then again, its worth learning italian to get to read Evola Wink
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:01    Post subject:
pistolshrimp wrote:
I voted Japanese because it has a soft sound. So does Hindi. Some Afican lang's has a soft sound as well. Punjabi not so much. Cantonese and Mandarin give you such a headache. Ohh , Maul al la tete. (my french is sucks)


Japanese can either have an extremely soft sound, as it can have a sound so hard that it almost seems like German.

Japanese can be the sweetest language to declare your love to someone, but also, as Lutzifer said above, it can be one of the best languages to declare war and rage.

it's this difference that makes me prefer Japanese to German, German always sounds like you're mad and want to kill someone, Japanese is a language of nuances.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:03    Post subject:
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japanese coming out of a girls mouth = bliss


that heavily depends. Life's not like asian pr0n, you know? Laughing

last year i went to see my mom and on the train i had to indure two japanese girls, who annoyed the hell out of me. Hauntingly overexaggerated and loud voices. No fun, i tell ya.

And if it comes to erotic languages, try french or italian. Their food and their women are also very mmmmmmmmmh Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:03    Post subject:
Dazz99 wrote:
japanese coming out of a girls mouth = bliss


it is, isn't it? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:06    Post subject:
Ronhrin wrote:

it is, isn't it? Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:09    Post subject:
For me, German = barking orders, Japanese = angry lunatic speaking. Laughing They always manage to say so much in Japanese in like one second.

It's like all this:
"玄宗朝に勃発した安史の乱により唐の国勢は大きく傾き、地方に節度使が半独立状態で割拠した藩鎮が跋扈するようになった。この状況に対して憲宗朝に於いて杜黄裳・武元衝・李吉甫らの主導により藩鎮に対して武力を使って政府に反抗的な藩鎮を討伐する強硬策が行われ一定の成果を収め、唐は中興時代を迎えた。しかし武力討伐に使われた費用は財政を悪化させ、また藩鎮に対抗するために作られた神策軍は宦官の勢力に組み込まれ、朝廷における宦官の勢力は極めて大きなものとなった。"
translates into:
"Yes master!" Laughing

Granted, I have no knowledge of the language, so... Razz
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:11    Post subject:
Ronhrin wrote:

it's this difference that makes me prefer Japanese to German, German always sounds like you're mad and want to kill someone, Japanese is a language of nuances.


hey, we germans dont all sound like Charlie Chaplin Laughing

There is actually a depth to the german language in how it conveys images by the sound of the words, that is really more than the stereotype of the mad german scientist or hitler-clone that you often find in the contemporary and historical stereotypes about the language.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:14    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
For me, German = barking orders, Japanese = angry lunatic speaking. Laughing They always manage to say so much in Japanese in like one second.

It's like all this:
"玄宗朝に勃発した安史の乱により唐の国勢は大きく傾き、地方に節度使が半独立状態で割拠した藩鎮が跋扈するようになった。この状況に対して憲宗朝に於いて杜黄裳・武元衝・李吉甫らの主導により藩鎮に対して武力を使って政府に反抗的な藩鎮を討伐する強硬策が行われ一定の成果を収め、唐は中興時代を迎えた。しかし武力討伐に使われた費用は財政を悪化させ、また藩鎮に対抗するために作られた神策軍は宦官の勢力に組み込まれ、朝廷における宦官の勢力は極めて大きなものとなった。"
translates in this:
"Yes master!" Laughing

Granted, I have no knowledge of the language, so... Razz


that is what I call over-exagerating

anyway

はいマスター (hai masutaa) - Yes Master

know you know how to address me correctly in Japanese Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:15    Post subject:
はいマスタ !
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:15    Post subject:
Ronhrin wrote:
know you know

Sorry, what? Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:18    Post subject:
LeoNatan wrote:
Ronhrin wrote:
know you know

Sorry, what? Laughing


hahahah, didnt notice that. Epic fail for the english language (i often make those mistakes two (sic!), because of the problematic relation between spoken and written english. Other languages are much more stringent there). I tell ya, you gotta go with jiddish!
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:28    Post subject:
You serious? You know Yiddish? But btw, Yiddish = Hebrew + Russian + German = UBER EPIC FAIL (to a "ZOMGZORZ" degree) Laughing

And BTW, "know" and "now" are not pronounced the same.
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:29    Post subject:
- Japanese as a romantic language

- Japanese as a bad ass language Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jun 2008 03:40    Post subject:
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You serious? You know Yiddish? But btw, Yiddish = Hebrew + Russian + German = UBER EPIC FAIL (to a "ZOMGZORZ" degree) Laughing

And BTW, "know" and "now" are not pronounced the same.


but beach and bitch are Laughing
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