Turkish has the eloquence of Finnish, but without the gayness...
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Anonymous2008-04-25 15:18
>>42
No, it is just as gay, but I'm letting this one slide because of holy GET
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Anonymous2008-04-25 17:04
Christianity is the worst religion for civilization, since redemption is dependent upon faith, rather than good works, and a lifetime of wickedness can be redeemed by a death-bed conversion.
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Anonymous2008-04-25 20:28
Arabic
Love: its so fucking rich
Haet: EXTREMELY DIFFICULT
I like Hungarian's overall sound, vowel harmony, some awesome words (mainly front vowel words like szeretett, nemesen, egészségedre), and the suffixes. I like being able to drop pronouns and the word "is" in many cases - it feels very natural. Being an English speaker, I'm glad that the pronunciation can almost always be determined from the spelling, and that there are fewer vowel sounds than in English. Verb particles are usually pretty logical too (and often have a corresponding English phrasal verb), which is nice.
However, I find it pretty difficult (there are quite a lot of grammatical cases and different verb conjugations), and when I pronounce some words like "sincs" there is far too much of the "sh" sound. I find it annoying how the Hungarian keyboard switches z and y. I'm also not entirely sure Hungarian food would suit me :)
>>46
What is your opinion of it? Are you also learning it?
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Anonymous2008-04-27 18:49
>>49
No, I'm not learning Hungarian, but I've been to Budapest and I think the language really is melodic and very nice to hear.
And also, Turkish has vowel harmony and the ability to drop "is" and pronouns too, but I don't think it sounds as good, probably due to the abundance of harsh consonants or because it sounds dull to me since it's my mother tongue.
Love: how it sounds and how it is elegant when someone uses it properly.
Hate: how it is in a terrible decline.
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Anonymous2008-05-13 10:29
Corelian
Love: Chicks dig it. I'm fat and pimply but when I speak this, chicks are swarming around me like flies, rubbing themselves to me while trying to open my zipper to suck my penis.
Hate: It's wwiting system (example: ერՀ თեաბեშია. Gezmtreyyibeb'bizh = I am happy). Too many sounds are represented by too few letters. ե can also represent u and f.
Love: The sound is pure awesomeness.
Hate: Too fucking difficult.
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Anonymous2008-06-03 20:02
English.
Love: Chanspeak. Celtic accents. Movies.
Haet: Messed up, unphonetic orthography. I often don't know how to pronounce certain words. Sometimes I hear a word and could think of 5 different ways of spelling it.
Love: Can sound very "epic". Many words, especially combined nouns, sound very, very cool.
hate: Genders. Some everyday-words sound pig-disgusting when pronounced in a certain way. East-Saxonian accents.
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Anonymous2008-06-04 8:40
Serbian
Love: sounds cool
Hate: serbs
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^^2008-06-19 2:13
Japanese
like: the sound, and written language (as impractical as it is)
>>72 written language (as impractical as it is)
haha, you know, the reason I started learning Japanese is that a weeaboo I know IRL told me about how the Japanese writing system works, and I was impressed by how smart a solution those Japs have found (I thought it was basically the same as Chinese, with like 50000 characters in use)
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Anonymous2008-06-20 18:47
Hah yeah, pretty much same, I have a Japanese friend and he told me some stuff, taught me the kana in two days. If you like efficient writing systems, you should check out arabic and korean too, which spend less time than the Japas really. It's odd how stroke order is pretty much the same, though, with Kanji and just writing cursive, apart from the things I hate, like writing 'ore' takes about 15 strokes, where as I is just 1...
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Anonymous2008-06-22 4:20
>>77
can you give a brief run down or anything about how the writing system works? seriously i fucking hate kanji
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Anonymous2008-06-22 15:35
Old English
Love: Sounds awesome
Hate: There is no future tense. You can only infer the future from context