> > > I think > > > > Yes, it's Dutch. The guttural consonants can take some getting used to. It's like > > half way from English to German. > > The worst-sounding language I know of is Danish. Worse even than Polish. > > I agree, Dutch doesn't sound too good either. > > It can't be just the guttural consonants, though. Hebrew has guttural consonants, but > it still sounds kind of sexy (at least when women speak it). > > To go a bit farther east: Vietnamese doesn't really sound like a language (at least > to my ears). Korean can sound anywhere from cute to horrible. Japanese could almost > pass for a European language, except that its loanwords are from Chinese rather than > from Latin and Greek. > > Some people construct alternate-universe versions of certain languages: google > Brithenig and Wenedyk. I would love to see a Japanese with its loanwords coming from > Latin and Greek, and an English with its loanwords coming from Chinese, or even an > English with its loanwords from Arabic.
English IS 'loanwords'.
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
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