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Gangerolf is offline Gangerolf
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May 2001
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only in Limburg

not all Dutch speak like that


I'll take your word for it. Although it would be strange if all the Dutch-speakers I've met/heard are from Limburg.
But yeah there are differences in accents and so on. Swiss-German is pretty nasty too.

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German. I've never heard Dutch, so I wouldnt know.

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Tough call.

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Several accents of English too...Birmingham or Liverpool accents must sound pretty horrible...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3775799.stm

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Spanish I find annoying. German I am biased for, since it is the language I am studying at the moment. English is my mother language, and the tongue of the Great America. Thus it is flawless.

Winston is offline Winston
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Mar 1999
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Heh! Arabic leads among the specified choices, but not a single poster had the guts (or was RACIST enough) to state in the thread he went for Arabic.

Arabic.

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
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Dutch...glad I don't speak Dutch, but Aan'twaaareps.

quote:
Birmingham or Liverpool accents must sound pretty horrible



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Never liked arabic.

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Jul 2003
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Originally posted by Winston
Heh! Arabic leads among the specified choices, but not a single poster had the guts (or was RACIST enough) to state in the thread he went for Arabic.

Arabic sounds like a throat disease. Dutch sounds like the ghost of someone that's died of same.

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Mar 2000
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I went for arabic... or was it dutch? both are way too guttural, and this is coming from a German, so you guys have no idea!

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Oct 2001
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Welsh.



Has the charm of sounding like someone with inoperable oesophageal cancer gargling with razor blades underwater.

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Jul 2002
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Ebonics.

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Spanish

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German

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Spanish, German, Finnish, Arabic, Greek, Swedish, American...all horrible sounding languages.

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C++ sounds pretty bad when spoken.

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arabic sounds alright. What's wrong with you guys?

It especially sounds great coming from a naked muslim woman

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Defently other: Danish (I've lived with this language all my life, so I know)

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I agree with Molly, Welsh should be in.

I think it sounds like the noises one might make while pleasuring a sheep. Perhaps a clue to its origin in Wales.

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I like english spoken by welsh though, lovely accent

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quote:
Originally posted by alva
I like english spoken by welsh though, lovely accent
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I sure hope you're kidding

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Originally posted by alva
I like english spoken by welsh though, lovely accent


While otoh, meesa thinks English spoken by Gungans is absolutely atrocious.

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I sure hope you're kidding


I don't think so, boyo.

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Sep 2000
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Any semetic languege. Some Central Asian Altic languages sound just as bad.

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Richard Burton was Welsh.

So is Tom Jones.

They both speak English beautifully, I agree.

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Catherine Zeta Jones

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I was thinking about Terry Griffiths, but ok...

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Hebrew, Romulan, Vulcan, and Lithuanian are good.

As for Swiss German, Baseldeutsch may be bad, but Zurideutsch and Bernedeutsch couldn't be, although I've never heard any of them. I have ancestors from Zurich and Berne cantons, and I really wish I could find resources to learn the dialects.

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German and Chinese.

British English. I used to like it at some point in the past, but no more so. It sounds too pretentious and irritates me.

I might have chosen Dutch, but I simply don't remember what it sounds like, even though I visited Amsterdam.

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Oct 2001
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I think it sounds like the noises one might make while pleasuring a sheep.


Leave it to the Kiwi to relate languages to sheep-****ing...

Oh, and I say Arabic. Might be because all the Arabic I've heard lately is from guys praising Allah before cutting off somebody's head.

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Originally posted by Gangerolf


I'll take your word for it. Although it would be strange if all the Dutch-speakers I've met/heard are from Limburg.
But yeah there are differences in accents and so on. Swiss-German is pretty nasty too.


Do you mean holland dutch or flemish dutch, because the difference is huge.
But really the worst language is west-flemish. It sounds a bit like they're swallowing half of their words, they don't know how to say the letter G etc etc.. I'm flemish myself but I hardly understand it ! (or not at all sometimes).

foreign languages: ... swedish sounds bad, and hebrew sounds a bit gay too, especially its R is wierd
o yea: english sounds bad too, but scottish rules. Too bad sctoland never conquered the rest of the island

 
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