Wednesday, July 11, 2012

My favorite tongues

likes (the audible impressions of) German for its clarity, Dutch for its gutteral quality, French for its elegance, Spanish for its rapidity, Portuguese for its sensuality, Italian for its romance, Hawaiian for its simplicity, Norwegian for its musicality, Danish for its slurring, Swedish for its melancholy, Czech for its majesty, Polish for its unspeakableness, Russian for its intrinsic poetry, Arabic for its phonetic complexity, English for its ineffability, Finnish for its perfectly phonetic spelling, Persian for its oddness, Hindi for its strangeness, Serbian for its prettiness, Hungarian for its weirdness, and Hebrew for its downright ugliness. What's YOUR favorite language?

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