The manliest is, by far, Arabic. If Captain Falcon were real, he'd be a manly fucking towelhead, in the unforgiving desert of the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia born and raised, speaking the roughest dialect of the harshest language. And his name would be QAA'ID SHAHID!
For the most feminine one I'll have to settle with Swedish. It's very soft, it flows nicely and is always spoken in a sort of sing-song tune. Svenska tjejer är heta!
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Anonymous2008-07-25 3:50
french is for wimmins
southern Slavic languages sound pretty manly
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Anonymous2008-07-28 9:28
It's all perception. I, for instance, think Arabic is for chicks and Swedish for übermen.
Korean is pretty manly imo.. and Jamaican English too in some instances.
Feminine languages.. Brittish, most likely.
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Anonymous2008-07-31 14:18
feminine: French, English and Mandarin
masculine: Russian, German and Spanish
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Anonymous2008-07-31 16:20
feminine: Swedish, British English, Mandarin
masculine: Russian, American English, Korean
homosexual: Hindi
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Anonymous2008-07-31 19:38
>>7
English is feminine and Spanish is masculine? oh wow
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Anonymous2008-08-01 4:33
people who think german is manly probably don't speak it. i love it, but it's a very soft sounding language once you get used to it.
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Anonymous2008-08-01 19:16
>>9
Well, with Spanish, I might be biased because I've watched like 200 episodes of the Mexican dub of Dragonball Z. >>10
I'm >>7 and fluent in German.
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Anonymous2008-08-02 18:49
feminine: Quenya
masculine: Ithkuil
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Anonymous2008-08-03 2:08
>>12
>Ithkuil
the script looks cool and rough, but the language itself? Dunno, I think it sounds more like something between vomiting and the babbling of a retard, not like something I'd label as particularly manly.
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Actually the Masculine ones would rather be Spanish, Italian, Italian and Mandarin.
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Anonymous2008-08-16 22:38
Otto Jespersen once said that Hawaiian sounded very feminine, and therefore the Hawaiian people are unable to do things like wage war. That claim has some serious LOL factor.
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Anonymous2008-08-16 22:57
Russian, and some other slavic languages are pretty damn manly
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Anonymous2008-08-17 1:43
most feminine, Italian, French, Portuguese...
German and Scottish accent in English are manly imho
Why do people think English sounds feminine? I would think it's more neutral sounding...
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Anonymous2008-08-18 12:17
>>23
That's because you're a native English speaker, most likely.
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Anonymous2008-08-19 0:58
>>23
because they probably are thinking men speaking it, but try to imagine a female. Yes, english makes men sound gay, and women sound butch.
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Anonymous2008-08-20 12:05
German is one of the most manly languages. Just listen to some old stuff, not the modern shit raped by turks and faggots.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 0:48
>>23
I've heard that English is a very nasally sounding language to non-native speakers.
Think of a gay guy talking. That is what everybody else hears when they listen to us.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 1:06
>>27
Really? I always wanted to sound like an old queen, awesome.
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Anonymous2008-08-22 16:13
I spoke with a chick I met in Japan in Japanese on the phone the other day. A friend, who overheard the conversation and doesn't have a clue of how Japanese even sounds like, said I sounded like a mouse.
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Anonymous2008-08-30 1:54
Japanese is a really feminine sounding language I think. I only base that on all the native Japs I've talked to in real life. All the girls I've talked to have orgasmic sounding voices. I would fuck their voice. It's ridiculously cute. The guys however, tend to have a tough time sounding manly.
I think English sounds masculine. Honestly, our language is fucked up and all choppy.
For starters, someone I know once described American English as "sounding like they'd had too much to eat".
There's differences in British English too; think stiff-upper-lip upper-class English (for ppl who'd barely go for anything as manly as a fox-hunt (where the dogs do the killing, btw)) vs accents like Cockney from the the run-down East-End districts where you'd find the hooligans &stuff.
Out of all the Slavic languages, Macedonian would be the most "manly" sounding. The other South Slavic languages have a lot of rising and falling tones while Russian has a lot of palatalization which make them all sound a little more feminine. Macedonian also has a reputation of being quite hard and stiff in terms of phonetics among other Slavic speakers.
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Anonymous2008-09-28 8:57
>>37
sounds exactly like every other southern slav language imo.
Serbians always sound angry though...