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Post by Miss Medicina on Mar 9, 2010 5:04:37 GMT -5
Personally, I think everything sounds sexier in Russian. Unfortunately, Russian does not look very sexy typed in English.
Menya zavoot Jessica!
Ya gavaryoo po-angleeski!
Ya doomayoo chto tuee interesnyee!
Definitely not very sexy when it's not in Cyrillic.
And, as a note, as someone who is always bewildered by slang terms and usually puts my foot directly into my mouth in slang-based scenarios, I can (proudly?) say that I knew exactly what splooge meant.
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Post by Passiflora on Mar 9, 2010 5:39:24 GMT -5
I'm a HUGE fan of japanese, although learning it was quite possibly the hardesst thing I ever had to push into my brain.
Looks as sexy as it sounds when typed.
I cannot for the life of me remember more than a few sentences in French, however hard I try. Action movies in french are quite funny.
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Post by zaeni on Mar 9, 2010 5:58:27 GMT -5
I think Japanese sounds sexy only because it's foreign and they do great food.
おはよございます なめえ は こう です
I admit the script does look good though, much better than chinese.
您好 我叫 振耀。
On a side not, death note was awesome. (And depressing).
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Post by protflashes on Mar 9, 2010 7:42:18 GMT -5
I think Japanese sounds sexy only because it's foreign I think that applies for all of them. Somebody who's French won't necessarily think French sounds sexy because they understand the language, tone, context, etc. But for somebody who doesn't speak any French (or anything similar), it can sound sexy because it's foreign and exotic and there's some degree of interpreting the words however you want. French, for example, doesn't sound super-sexy to me. I don't actually speak it, but I'm surrounded by it (Canada has TWO official languages, and one of them's French ^^) so it just sounds like French to me. But Spanish...mmmmmm.... *Cough* And Irish. Which isn't a language so much as an accent, but which I am fascinated by. What I find interesting in different languages is how different the tone is to a non-speaker. Some languages (and the people who speak them) sound like they're yelling ALL THE TIME. Some always sound like they're trying to tell you a secret. And so on and so forth. Because I don't recognize/understand the tone of the words because it's from a place I've never been exposed to. I'd say 75% of the tension involved in a language barrier is two people with wildly different tones, and neither understands why the other is "taking that tone" with me. But now I think I'm venturing into culture, as opposed to langauge, which just goes to prove why I shouldn't try to communicate this early in the morning... ^^
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Post by Tufva on Mar 9, 2010 8:08:35 GMT -5
I honestly find everything sexier in Italian Hear, hear! (though it may be cause I don't understand what they are saying)
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Post by zaeni on Mar 9, 2010 8:42:55 GMT -5
maybe i should have emphasised and they make good food. ^_^
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Post by jen on Mar 9, 2010 10:18:19 GMT -5
I beg to differ. Canadian isn't French. Really.
I tried to watch a Canadian sitcom once (with my boyfriend who knows better French than me), and it was like they took the language, put it in the blender and then took it out. Sounds like French from time to time, but then it goes to something else and you can't figure out WTF they're saying. Real weird feeling there...
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Post by Nefernet on Mar 9, 2010 10:27:24 GMT -5
Actually, French from Quebec is spoken with a very strong accent. And some words have different meanings. I think it comes from old French, that people in Quebec speak like French people in the 17-18th century, when the first colonists crossed the oceans and settled there.
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Post by jen on Mar 9, 2010 10:45:19 GMT -5
The Canadian French I heard sounded like the bastard child of French and English topped off with a weird accent. Might've been because it was a modern sitcom...
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Post by protflashes on Mar 9, 2010 11:04:43 GMT -5
What you're hearing is probably some kind of local dialect and the Quebecois accent. From what I understand, French from France sounds very crisp and formal to most Quebecers. Ironically, they generally tend to try to teach France French to English kids in school - which means when we try to talk to a somebody from Quebec there can be confusion. ^^ And yes, there's a lot of English in it - that's in large part because of the official bilingualism here. The French people, once they leave Quebec, are surrounded by English folk. There are a lot of bilinugal cities, especially in Ontario and the maritime provinces, but all that means is you pick up the local expressions and phrases - whether they're English or French. So you wind up speaking "Fringlish" or "Franglais" a lot of the time. Even in French Immersion schools, most of the students are Anglophones whose parents want them to learn French. SO there's an interesting mingling of the two languages. And then there's Acadian French, which is apparently a whole different kettle of fish. ^^ Every language has its own dialects and vernaculars and regional variances, which I find kind of interesting. It's like British English versus North American English versus Australian English - it's technically the same language, but it sure sounds different. ^^
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Post by Tufva on Mar 9, 2010 11:24:48 GMT -5
I was taught British English in school but most of the TV-shows and movies I saw was American - so I ended up with a mostly British way of speaking, but I still (after 10 years in England) get confused about certain words. I usually get pavement right (over sidewalk), though lift vs elevator and fall vs autumn I never get right.
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Post by Echo on Mar 9, 2010 11:44:22 GMT -5
After 9years in England my formerly mild Glaswegian accent sounds Canadian. When I was still at school (I moved at around 14/15ish)a teacher actually told me to "Start speaking english for god's sake" so its become a weird mix subconciously because otherwise people don't understand me. Bunch of Fannybaws.
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