Do you think English is beautiful?

Night Butterfly   Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:02 pm GMT
How so?
aestheticus   Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:11 pm GMT
no -- it just sounds like a typical language to me -- sor of neutral.

Perhaps I'm biased, as a native speaker.

The written language is pretty nice, without all those pesky accentmarks that you so often see in languages. Of course, both Spanish and French (and probably others) would look really nice in print, without accents.
Guest   Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:27 pm GMT
What's wrong with accents?
yo   Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:20 pm GMT
I like accents, they add character to a language. Languages without accents look hyperbland.
H8   Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:29 pm GMT
It is just a series of noises, like any other animal vocalisation.

Only halfwits make a fuss about particular words or languages.
Guest   Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:05 pm GMT
I agree that accents look like crap. They were not originally supposed to be there.
Guest   Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:07 pm GMT
Where were they supposed to be?
Guest   Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:21 pm GMT
The letters they now adorn were supposed to be plain.
Guest   Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:27 am GMT
You suppose too much.
purist   Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:44 am GMT
Written English is very ugly. English is supposed to be written in runes.
Guest   Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:49 am GMT
Germanic languages are not supposed to be writen.
Skippy   Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:53 am GMT
I like how it sounds, but I'm a native English speaker.
???   Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:55 am GMT
English does strike me as a pretty neutral language somehow, not particularly beautiful but not ugly and harsh either. I suppose it seems a bit flat somehow.
THE MATTER   Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:24 am GMT
English seems like a fairly watered down Germanic language. It is rather bland and women sound relatively unsexy speaking it - Americans sound overly nasal and Antipodean ones sound squeaky and annoying.
Bonita   Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:06 pm GMT
English is Dutch diluted by French, with the ensuing effects.