Most ear-piercing language in your opinion

Apr 25, 2023 1:21 PM

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Definitely American Sign Language.

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Apr 25, 2023 8:18 PM

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Noboru said:

Meusnier said:
Nice video! She sounds like the voice in train stations. Women have always a more pleasant voice after all. Even some dialects can become pretty with them.

Thanks! Haha, that's right xD I do prefer male singing voices in Germanic languages, though

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i died reading this jfc

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Why? They both have their charms:

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Apr 25, 2023 8:39 PM

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yuurei_tokyo said:
Not necessarily "ear-piercing", but Russian sounds like someone keysmashing with their mouth.

I studied Russian for 2 years so I think I can explain this. The whole reason that Russian sounds rough is because of the minor velarization (making much weaker Spanish "j" sound) on hard (AKA non-palatalized) consonants makes it sound like that. It also makes Russian much more complicated due to intonational constructs (IK) in sentences. Tiny ways to emphasis a statement sentence (IK-1) if one wants to emphasize very mildly on a subject noun, object noun, or even verb.

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Apr 26, 2023 2:16 AM

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Never liked french, and i'm thankful for having never been forced to learn it at school. Older generations before mine had only that as a mandatory foreign language, and i began english only at the 5th / final year of elementary school in 1996, actively avoiding classes and courses of other languages in middle and high school as french was the only other option. For me, its sound is just ugly, especially the accent always put at the end of the words, and honestly i always called most of their last names without that, either naturally or on purpose (and having always been an outcast that rarely talked to people in general, i never had a problem). It also didn't help that during the school years i accidentally met a lot of people that bragged about knowing it and acted as if they were automatically better than everyone else. To be fair, on the other side, there are songs in french language that i have no trouble in listening if the instrumentation is good, for example... Manu Chao by Les Wampas discovered a decade ago in the PS3 Rock Band setlist, or some more obscure dancefloor genre ones from the late 90's and early 2000's (Jolie Dairì and Boom Boom by Lamar, La Lecon by DeejayJay feat. Danielle, even Encore One Fois by Sash and the Encore project tracks starring the same singer).

Also, most of the times, i don't enjoy how italian words (coming from the same country) are pronounced in english language even if i like it overall. And to be honest, i won't take offence at all if someone calls italian language ear-piercing, i'm the first one that dislikes multiple dialects and regional accents from it.

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Apr 26, 2023 8:19 AM

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Frostwork said:
Can you still speak it? I studied German long ago but I didn't practice it in any way for like 15 years. So all my knowledge is pretty much out of the window now, I can't speak it at all. Aside from simple 'Guten Tag' or something.

Also, you should understand that Russian has regional accents/dialects like any other language and that includes pronunciation too (plus personal temperament of a speaker). It's like if we were to judge Japanese language by it's anime or samurai movies counterparts. This is not how Japanese speak in reality. By the way, "standard", if you want, Russian (like, in central European part of it?) is very even, rather calm and not really that harsh. It resembles regular Japanese or Canadian (British Columbia?) English in that regard. Actually, sometimes I watch some interview with a Canadian in it and I swear they sound like they're Russian but just very good at English)) I'd say Putin, Lavrov, Peskov pretty much speak that kind of Russian.

Still know how to read Russian decently. It's still a very beautiful language to me and it's also close to my maternal grandfather's heritage language, southwestern Belarusian dialect, which is also very close to the dead Russian dialect spoken in western Canada by the doukhobors.

And don't start with social aspects of how langauges can be different. This reminds me of how some British university students in the 1990s who went to Russia to study Russian and later caught up speaking in Russian prison sociolect.

Apr 27, 2023 1:18 PM

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Meusnier said:
Why? They both have their charms

As much as I can aesthetically appreciate the work you've put as an example, it's not something I would listen to for a longer time
Of course, there are also plenty of songs by female singers that I enjoy in English or German as well, but the tendency is rather that songs by male singers have more impact on me. This reverses for Asian languages, particularly Japanese, Mandarin and Korean where I almost exclusively listen to female singers
It's a simple preference or what I'm more attuned to. When it comes to navigation and everything else, I prefer female voices, though

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Apr 27, 2023 8:09 PM

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Frostwork said:
Hmm, I wouldn't say it's that dead.

Oh, I guess I was confused from the Canadian Ukrainian dialect. That's pretty much dead due to shifting the language to French due to French education and then to English.

Apr 27, 2023 9:46 PM

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ofc @Noboru in here defending german bruh could sense that shit from a mile away lil bro i could tell a chick she is a beautiful butterfly and i sound like im barking order on the front line cuh

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Apr 28, 2023 7:40 AM

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Noboru said:

Meusnier said:
Why? They both have their charms

How can a German not like Wagner? Are you sure that you are not Austrian by chance?

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ofc @Noboru in here defending german bruh could sense that shit from a mile away lil bro i could tell a chick she is a beautiful butterfly and i sound like im barking order on the front line cuh

His grandfather must have taught him the best deutsche Lieder:

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Apr 28, 2023 11:09 AM

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Meusnier said:
How can a German not like Wagner? Are you sure that you are not Austrian by chance?

lol that would be the same in blue and I'm not able to tell whether or not I have ancestors from Eastern Bavaria, errm Austria. And I didn't say that I would dislike it

His grandfather must have taught him the best deutsche Lieder

lol I wished, but that couldn't happen
To this song choice, I can only say: "sag warum"

@Cookies: You're doing it wrong mate, you should use "Ey Puppe!" to call the person of your affection. You can try the Swiss-German/Allemanic version of "Ey Püppli" if you want to completely knock them off their feet

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Apr 28, 2023 11:44 AM

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Id say russian but im also german so what do i know

Apr 28, 2023 8:24 PM

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@Frostwork

I almost forgot to say. I used to study German, but my memory retention was very poor as it might forget my French. 1/4 of my cousins speak French (Quebecois), so I must not lose my French in the first place. Surprisingly, me, my sister, and my two other much older male cousins (I barely talk to them) are the only native English speakers of the current generation.

If there is something going on with my family, it's that the language struggle is very real.

And a native English speaker understanding French in Canada? It's sort of a cringy thing, unfortunately. That's the reason I try not to identify myself as a Canadian.

Apr 29, 2023 1:19 AM

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I dislike French about as much as my mom dislikes German. ...minus her racialism.

Apr 29, 2023 7:24 AM

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Frostwork said:
By the way, I'm under impression it's only British Columbia that speaks English. The rest of the country speaks French and the two do not understand each other (unless they speak the language of one another). Is that true? I assume it's only upper society that speaks both fluently, but not the common folk?

French is usually spoken around the eastern part of Canada and around 1/3 or 1/4 of the population speaks French, mostly in dialect forms. I think you have that impression due to how most Russians in Canada after WWII historically settled in and around Quebec.

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