I disagree with Russian being an overrated 'mafia language'. It sounds pretty fucking awesome. Also, it has a very clever, and in some ways insightful, way of expressing itself.
Japanese - It's hardly even its own language. Just a bunch of Japanified Chinese loanwords (moar like stealwords amirite?), and lately, Japanified English loanwords. Shitty weeaboo language.
English - Most accents sound fucking horrible, shitty grammar, shitty irregularities, shitty orthography, shitty everything.
French - Nasal faggoty piece of shit.
Dutch - Sounds like a German attempting to speak Arabic and failing horribly.
Danish - DEAR FUCKING GOD
Cantonese - It's what you sound like during puberty. Not pleasant.
Hebrew - Sounds like Dutch guy trying to speak Arabic with a French accent. Disgusting.
There are some underrated languages too:
German - People say it sounds too rough, but that's the fucking charm of it. It's aggressive and manly. Too bad half of its speakers are fags.
Arabic - It's more than just angry Al-Qaida insurgents screaming "ALLAHU AKBAR". It can be as harsh as it can be soft, and the roots and stems are fucking ingenious.
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Anonymous2008-01-12 17:18
Danish - DEAR FUCKING GOD
I lol'd
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Anonymous2008-01-12 20:09
German sounds like crap. Cantonese sounds cool. Arabic sounds like Hebrew.
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Anonymous2008-01-12 23:13
Japanese and English. Fucking shit, both of 'em, and very popular
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Anonymous2008-01-12 23:16
>>8
I also disagree. Russian has very functional grammar and the alphabet is very phonetic (unlike English's bullshit), is indeed very 'clever' at times and has very clear expression. I totally agree with your assessment of the others, too
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Anonymous2008-01-12 23:20
>>12 here
Actually, give Danish a break. I don't mind Danish
Arabic as a language is great, but arabic society is another matter...
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Anonymous2008-01-13 5:58
Well, I was semi-joking about Danish, but it really DOES sound like they have a hot potato in their throats.
Also, being an Arab, I can tell you that there is no 'Arabic' society anymore, only Islamic. The difference being that Arabs were fairly secular and pretty damn good at contributing to science, mathematics and actual astronomy (as opposed to astrology) in pre-Islamic and even early Islamic times.
Then that faggot Muhammad came along and metaphorically shat on everyone's dick and raped them in the eye, the result being a religion even worse than Christianity (as if that's possible) and faggotry all around.
>>14
Most Arabic contributors to science and mathematics were muslims.
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Anonymous2008-01-15 12:58
>>4
I think it sounds wonderful when it's read by someone who knows what he is doing; especially when it's in verse form.
Also, thanks to the distinctive sandhi system, there are no "harsh" sound combinations within a sentence. I don't know of any other language that takes so much effort in getting the sentences sound good.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 13:04
>>16
Considering how religions worked back then (and still do in some places), I'm sure anyone living there with the intellect to contribute to science would have been smart enough to call himself a Muslim.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 17:42
>>8
Arabic + Mandarin = fucking rude languages, everytime I hear it it's like people are yelling at each other.
English = retarded monkeys language - can't reproduce nasal sounds nor diacritics on letters.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 17:44
Hungarian = OMFG
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Anonymous2008-01-16 19:39
English is a simple langauge that ESL (English Second Language) people speak better than native speakers. Spanish, I've heard white Americans who don't know any Spanish go on about how Mexican Spanish sucks and Spanish Spanish is good. No, Mexican Spanish is good and Spanish Spanish sucks.
Mexican Spanish > Other Spanish
Québécois French > Other French
American and Canadian English < Other English
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Anonymous2008-01-16 22:15
>>21
ORIGINAL VERSIONS ARE BETTER
UK ENGLISH > US ENGLISH
FR FRENCH > QC FRENCH
ES SPANISH > MX SPANISH
Never liked french. It sounds like they have balls in their mouth while speaking. Still so popular language and considered beautiful language of love ... blah.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 17:26
Actually, French is hot when spoken in that innocent "I gon get raped" kind of way by 11-year-old girls.
It's a faggy language in all other cases.
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Anonymous2008-02-06 21:58
Actually, about spanish, I like better chilean pronuntiation, as it's the more clear of them all (everyone else like argentinians or whatever they are called in english and spanish talk like they are eating something), although I like the words the spanish use, and having future tense (we chileans don't really use the future tense but in the news and writing in actual talk is always the "I'm going to" tense I don't remember the name of).
also, I think russian is a pretty cool guy. Eh has eighteen vowels and doesn't afraid of anything.
btw is there any language with odd (for english and roman-based speakers) sentence orders that's not faggotry or brain-dead inducing, I think I learnt enough english already to speak in it and now I want to learn something to think in in a different way, kind of like the switch I make from programming in C to lisp.
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Anonymous2008-02-08 12:55
>btw is there any language with odd (for english and roman-based speakers) sentence orders that's not faggotry or brain-dead inducing, I think I learnt enough english already to speak in it and now I want to learn something to think in in a different way, kind of like the switch I make from programming in C to lisp.
There are plenty.
Finnish, Arabic, Japanese if you're a weeaboo, to mention a few.
>>37
Switch Hebrew with Arabic, and put it in the next line. Put Turkish where Arabic was to complete the pseudo-continuum.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 1:57
Basque = Hard to learn if raesed on english
Latin = Hard as fuck to learn but sentances are really damn short
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Anonymous2008-02-09 19:51
>>40 Latin = (...) sentances are really damn short
wat?
You have never read any Latin written by anyone not writing for first-graders, have you? Most classical authors average about a page per sentence.
one sentence chosen at random from Caesar's "De Bello Gallico VI":
Labienus, hostium cognito consilio, sperans temeritate eorum fore aliquam dimicandi facultate, praesidio quinque cohortium impedimentis relicto cum xxv cohortibus magnoque equitatu contra hostem proficiscitur et mille passuum intermitio spatio castra communit.
one sentance chosen at random from Cicero's "Invectivarum In L. Catilinam (Oratio Prima)":
Quare quoniam id, quod est primum et quod huius imperii disciplinaeque maiorum proprium est, facere nondem audeo, faciam id, quod est ad severitatem lenius et ad communem salutem utilius.
seriously, if you think Latin has short sentences, you are in high school Latin 1 and the most advanced sentence you've ever seen is 'puellae pupas amant'.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 14:00
>>39
I heard turkish was the simplest azn language to learn
then again, I would expect it to be virtually useless
I like both Arabic and Turkish. Hebrew not so much. Arabic sounds passionate. Hebrew... not so much. It's like Arabic corrupted into a shitload of "sh" and "tzv" sounds, imitating some sort of disgusting French/Polish mixture.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 14:31
>>44
Well, I meant, excluding Indo-European languages, which I assume would be a lot simpler to learn because they are closer to our languages.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 15:58
>>44 >>45
Well guess what, Hindi and Persian are indeed Indo-European languages.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 16:21
>>46
Thank you for repeating what I said - to stress its importance, I presume.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 16:26
>>47
Uh no, you said the exact opposite. You said that besides Indo-European languages, Hindi and Persian would be simpler.
When you said "excluding Indo-European languages", you placed Persian and Hindi out of that group, when they actually belong to it.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 16:53
>>48
No, you misunderstood what I said. I meant "excluding Indo-European languages" to asian languages, which was the subject of my initial post, and the point was Hindi and Persian WERE a part of Indo-European languages, hence why they were simpler.
My original comparison was meant to be between altaic/japonic/uralic languages.
>>44
Since when is agglutinative = hard? Ok, words like Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız ("You are said to be one of those that we couldn't manage to convert to a Czechoslovak")could invoke sentiments like that, but generally, I believe it makes little difference.
Turkish is extremely regular in structure- rivaling artificial languages, because the whole language was virtually re-done in the twentieth century. Also, words are generated from some number of roots by adding defined affixes, so even if you hear some word for the first time in your life, you can guess what it means.
Though stuff like vowel harmony could be confusing, phonetic latin script etc. probably make it easier for many.
But, all in all, it is a pretty useless language to learn unless you have an obsessive-compulsive interest with the people.
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Anonymous2008-02-12 12:28
>>53
All languages but English are useless and therefore, hobbies.
>>54
Not if you like your literature and poems not raped by translators.
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Anonymous2008-02-12 15:14
>>56
Literature and poems are hobbies, so my point remains.
Also, faggotry. Real men only read technical books and technical translators tend to be accurate.
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Anonymous2008-02-14 12:42
>>57
You can't understand SICP without reading the Death of Ivan Ilyich first.
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Anonymous2008-02-15 14:39
>>36
>think I learnt enough english already to speak in it
If I were you, I'd keep learning English for a bit.
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Anonymous2008-02-19 20:47
Japanese is the fourth most popular language on the internet (next to English, Chinese, Spanish, in that order)
Useful in today's society I would say.
Sanskrit on the other hand, no use.
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Anonymous2008-02-20 3:56
>>60
Bullshit.
Everyone worth talking to knows English.
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Anonymous2008-02-20 7:13
>>60
But will it be useful in 2018? You've gotta think about these things.
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Anonymous2008-02-20 10:17
>>60
Useful if you're a weeaboo, you'll never need it unless you have a job which involves going to Japan.
I don't believe Persian has nothing to do with Arabic. They both use the same script, they both have a heck of a lot of similar words and the speakers of both look the same and smell the same.
>>91
No, Turkish is an Altaic language, it's from a different family from both Indo-European AND Semitic languages. It is structurally closer to Japanese for fuck's sake.
About the script, yes, they use the Latin alphabet which was adopted in the 20th century, but before that they used the arabic script.
But of course, vocabulary could have been influenced. The case was so in Ottoman Turkish, which contained so many redundant loanwords it was second to only English in the size of vocabulary. But modern Turkish mostly has native words, and most loanwords are of Indo-European origin. A detailed chart is in the link below.
turkish only started using the euro trash alphabet after the collapse of the ottoman empire.
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Anonymous2008-02-27 12:24
Those were Ottomans, not Turks. Two different people.
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Anonymous2008-02-27 14:06
>>96
Actually, there was no "ottoman people" unless you consider it a superset which included all ethnicities in the empire (well it was pretty multicultural for its time)