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[Van Fanel]

Just calling it Bucky-Balls instead of Buckminsterfullerene is much better too

There is also one other very simple language to learn which is BruceLeeish!
Example: WWWOOOOOOOOOOHHH!! If you can control this sound, you are suitable to master the language

[AuroraExecution]

@VF: we did those last week.  Ah, the carbon compound of the long name and the nonexistent function. 

I personally like Jackie Chan a little more--he has the greatest, most adorable accent.  ^^

[Aulus]

I like watching foreign movies with foreign dialects and languages. Just finish watching Black Book about the Nazi in Holland. But I can't catch the language whether it';s Dutch or German (since the beginning of the movie opens with scene in Holland). They sound a like to my ears. I think I still have another movie which I havent watched (Im sure Shaina knows it ^_^) Operation Valkyrie. I think it's in German (???) since the actor is Sebastian Koch (Wiki said he';s german) - he's a dreamy handsome man when he combs his hair :p I havent watched it yet but I did fast forward it for several minutes. GErman doenst sound like 'angry' language to me although I cant distinguish it from Dutch,

Angry language? I must say Japanese! Esp in samurai movies

[AuroraExecution]

I think most languages sound angry when spoken by an...angry...person....  dunno, maybe I've got a weird sense of the world. 

Personally, German sounds like sausage for me.  I don't mean that as a stereotype.  That's just what it sounds like.  My take on languages goes something like this: 

German - sausage
French - chocolate, or a brook
British English - a ship (the old-fashioned kind with sails and decks and things)
Greek - food
Irish Gaelic - wind in grass
Spanish - a party
Cantonese - the bronze bell-chimes from ancient China
Quenya - a forest (never mind that Quenya is a fictional language)

I haven't thought of parallels for the others yet. 

[Shaina [シャイナ]]

@AuroraExecution

Now there are interesting associtions I swear I would *never* have been able to come up with!

Hm. I have to admit, I couldn't put any such or even different associations to languages.

[Aulus]

@AE: Errr... sorry but I dont understand what u mean I mean, what does German has to do with sausage? (Endy blinks) Cantonese is a bell? (ENdy blinks again). Please kindly elaborate so I can understand Sorry if I sound so stupid. I prefer to ask when I dont understand something.

[Van Fanel]

In German cuisine the (almost) only good thing to eat are sausages.

[Ananke]

I heard from some people that German sounds like cursing for them XD...For me it sounds really nice, especially all these words with "ch" like "madchen" .
I didn't think about people reaction when they hear Polish before. Some words could be a little bit schoking, like "konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka" (little girl from Constantinopole) ; )

[AuroraExecution]

@Endy: It's simple, darl.  Those are just what I think the languages sound like.  German sounds like sausages.  If you still don't get it, then don't worry about it. 

[Shaina [シャイナ]]

@Van

And as I hate sausages, I rarely eat anything pertaining to classical German cuisine at all. Go Pasta! Go Japanese/Chinese/Thai/Indian food!

[whateverwinnie]

@Ananke: Oh God... What a word!! Thanks goodness I'm not Polish... I can never spell properly... XP

@Shaina: YESH!!! Asian food rox!!! Maybe it's time to switch the Linguistics Topic to Food Topic!!! XD XD XD

 

[Aulus]

@AE: (Endy's eyes r rolling and his head spinning) Err.. actually I still dont understand (duh!) I dont think of sausage and german. German language sounds so hard. If one gives me an example of a senetnce  in german and asks me to repeat, i wont be able ><

[AuroraExecution]

Endy, just don't worry about it.  It's just what I think the languages sound like-MY interpretations.  They don't have to work for you, and if you can't see the connections, then just stop thinking about it. 

[Phyrra / Mel]

^.^;; Shaina, I was going to ask you if you could translate some of the things E-Nomine sings since he's german, but he also speaks Latin in the songs.  I know it's verses from the bible.  Vater Unser I have it in english, but not the other ones.

Mel

[Shaina [シャイナ]]

Well, if you give me the lyrics, I should be able to give you a translation. ^_^