Language and the Character of Nations

[Colonâ„¢]

Re: Re: Language and the Character of Nations

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Maybe Ive heard it too much from teen aged girls, anime background songs, etc, etc.

Anyone who hears Chihiro say "arigato" can't possibly believe the Japanese are militaristic.

[Cort Haus]

There are actually at least a dozen distinct and very different British accents, but none of them sound as rude and untidy as Polish, frog-phucker.

[aneeshm]

Re: Language and the Character of Nations

Originally posted by VetLegion

So this got me wondering: can we conclude something about "national character" from just the sound of language its people speak?

Yes, we can.

Here is a link to priests chanting Vedic Sanskrit.

Here is a link to a person chanting Classical Sanskrit.

Marathi, Hindi, and others vary quite a bit.

[aneeshm]

And it seems the southern languages have a script based on ळ rather than ह.

[C0ckney]

that explains a lot!

[aneeshm]

They seem to love the hard ळ.

And please don't compare that character with any bodily organ.

[BeBMan]

Re: Re: Language and the Character of Nations

Originally posted by aneeshm
Yes, we can.

Actually we can't.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Heresson
Czech language is a laughstock, and so are Czechs

German language sounds either as a beer-burping (southern version, especially what I've heard in western parts of Austria), sometimes demonic beer-burping

French sounds elegant, attempting to be subtle to the point of being gayish

British English sounds untidy and rude

Italian sounds nice, but what was said about French applies to it to a lesser extent

Arabic sounds different depending on where from is the one speaking and is he a boy or a girl. Lebanese dialect spoken by a girl sounds very nice.

And Polish sounds gay too, but of course you already knew that.

[Ecthy]

Whenever I hear Polish around me I check whether I still have all my stuff with me.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Whenever I hear Polish around me I check whether I still have all my stuff with me.

Are you sure you don't mean Spanish?

[Ecthy]

Ellos no te roban, son los polacos que me preocupan y no estoy hablando de los de Barcelona

[Wernazuma III]

A mà en Sevilla me ha robado un puto español - de cierta minorÃa étnica...

[Barnabas]

¿Un gitano?

[fed1943]

Some years ago,I made an experience at airports.

I checked the advices time and the English version was always
much faster.

Best regards,

[Barnabas]

English is a very short language (I mean has short words)