Language and the Character of Nations
 

You're ignoring dialectical considerations.

Italians always sound furious http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/mad.gif

Originally posted by VetLegion
Japanese is militaristic. All that "AI! AI!" and the attitude that goes with it makes it such. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Maybe Ive heard it too much from teen aged girls, anime background songs, etc, etc.

Country singers sound nasal

Originally posted by VetLegion

German sounds nitpicky and analytic. It's not nitpicky, its precise language! /nitpicker http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Jawohl, Sirrrrrr! *salutes* http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Nah, it's more the accent. Swiss French has more of a 'rural' sound to my ears than French French. Don't ask me about Quebecois French - I don't know what to say about it. And Spanish seem to have two speeds - native uberfast and the Spanish spoken with an non-native, which is considerably slower and more enunciated for the benefit of yon ignorant foreigner.

Originally posted by Japher


Certain dialects though sound weird. The southern draw, Texan, midwestern slant, Bostonians inability to pronounce the letter R...

Japanesse is militant with an edge of too much caffine. ...except for when a woman speaking over the announcement says it, as the idealized voice is a sort of airy, delicate type thing?

Again, you're forgetting dialects. You're also forgetting context, and who's doing the talking...

Originally posted by Q Cubed

phlegmy? no hes saying Israelis are too Belgian.

Do all of the various north american english accents sound more like each other than they sound like any accents elsewhere to those of you not from north america? I'm surprised by how often those accents seem to get lumped together.

Biharis sound Spiritual, Organised.

Hindi-speakers sound Spritual, Industrious.

Canadians sound like their heads are stuck up their arses.

(* not all of them, of course)

Originally posted by LordShiva
Biharis sound Spiritual, Organised.

Hindi-speakers sound Spritual, Industrious. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

There are actually at least a dozen distinct and very different British accents, but none of them sound as rude and untidy as Polish, frog-phucker.

And it seems the southern languages have a script based on ळ rather than ह.

They seem to love the hard ळ.

And please don't compare that character with any bodily organ.

Originally posted by Heresson
Czech language is a laughstock, and so are Czechs http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/cute.gif

German language sounds either as a beer-burping (southern version, especially what I've heard in western parts of Austria), sometimes demonic beer-burping

French sounds elegant, attempting to be subtle to the point of being gayish

British English sounds untidy and rude

Italian sounds nice, but what was said about French applies to it to a lesser extent

Arabic sounds different depending on where from is the one speaking and is he a boy or a girl. Lebanese dialect spoken by a girl sounds very nice. And Polish sounds gay too, but of course you already knew that. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Originally posted by Ecthy
Whenever I hear Polish around me I check whether I still have all my stuff with me. Are you sure you don't mean Spanish? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

A mí en Sevilla me ha robado un puto español - de cierta minoría étnica...

Some years ago,I made an experience at airports.

I checked the advices time and the English version was always
much faster.

Best regards,