Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Adam Walker wrote:

> Romanian is really nice except for the =EE.=20
What's wrong with =EE (except that it's hard to pronounce if you're not
used to it)? Valdyan has it :-)

> Portuguese is=20
> really nice.
Concedo. Except that when you're in Portugal for a few days (as a
non-Portuguese) the nasalized vowels begin to hum in your head
constantly.=20

> Languages I *don't* like the sound of -- Russian
I don't like Russian either; as for the Slavic languages, I much
prefer Church Slavonic with as little Russian accent as possible
(this morning in church I heard someone pronounce it with *my own*
Dutch regional accent, worse than mine when I sing in it; quite an
enlightening experience), Czech and Bulgarian/Macedonian (a
distinction without a difference AFAIK). I like Polish even less than
Russian; perhaps it's just the nasalized vowels that I don't like,
which turn me off French as well.

   Irina

            Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay.
                     irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
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