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Best and worst languages

best meaning what? sounds the coolest? has the coolest words? Can convey the most meaning in the least words?

I think english is one of the worst languages. No pronounciation rules, too many weird-sounding, weirdly-spelled words.
 
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
best meaning what? sounds the coolest? has the coolest words? Can convey the most meaning in the least words?

I think english is one of the worst languages. No pronounciation rules, too many weird-sounding, weirdly-spelled words.
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Sounds the best.
 
Best for business: English
Best for seduction: Tie between French and Italian
Best for yelling at people: Tie between Japanese and German, Russian an honorable mention
Best for making fun of it's accent: Indian
Best for clearing your throat: Arabic
 
Worst: Tagalog
Spanish if spoken with the whiney tone/accent
Best: German, almost any Slovic, Italian and English. Sorry...love them all and I can't narrow it down.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Best for business: English
Best for seduction: Tie between French and Italian
Best for yelling at people: Tie between Japanese and German, Russian an honorable mention
Best for making fun of it's accent: Indian
Best for clearing your throat: Arabic
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Originally posted by: BD2003
Best for business: English
Best for seduction: Tie between French and Italian
Best for yelling at people: Tie between Japanese and German, Russian an honorable mention
Best for making fun of it's accent: Indian
Best for clearing your throat: Arabic
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:laugh: I like this list.
 
Best: Urdu
Worst: I dunno, all languages I don't speak sound weird to me. Though sometimes, I wonder how Chinese kids even learn to speak because I just can't catch a single syllable the person is saying. I can get 'some' words spoken in German, French or Spanish (even when the speaker is going pretty fast).
 
Yeah, Japanese is a really cool sounding language. German is cool too. French is OK. Pretty much every other language is annoying to listen to, with Chinese, Vietnamese, and Spanish being the worst.
 
I gotta agree with German and yelling... must be why Hitler loved to speak so emphatically 😛. Japanese has always seemed more like the low-key type of yelling to me though (i.e. not so emphatic).

But spanish rules, because you can just put an 'o' on the end of anything and it's Spanish. Just don't do that to "cool" or you may piss some people off.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Best for business: English
Best for seduction: Tie between French and Italian
Best for yelling at people: Tie between Japanese and German, Russian an honorable mention
Best for making fun of it's accent: Indian
Best for clearing your throat: Arabic
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Indian is not a language 😛
And I totally get what you mean by 'Arabic' 😉

Arabic only sounds nice when a non-native person is speaking IMO. The native-speakers seriously...how do i put it...just murder the language with that throaty sound. Some people in my family (Indian origin) speak a little Arabic and they sound much better than Arabs.
 
Best : my mother tongue "Konkani".. I will be really surprised if anyone has even heard of this. 🙂 [Its a coastal language in India]

There is no script to write this language, it is just a spoken language and one cannot write it (you can of course spell it in English, but the language itself has no script).

Worst : All other languages. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
I gotta agree with German and yelling... must be why Hitler loved to speak so emphatically 😛. Japanese has always seemed more like the low-key type of yelling to me though (i.e. not so emphatic).

But spanish rules, because you can just put an 'o' on the end of anything and it's Spanish. Just don't do that to "cool" or you may piss some people off.
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Having a German yelling at you with all the force of his voice is like a real, physical beating. Like breaking a bottle over your head.

Whereas having a Japanese yell at you gives you the impression that if they don't stop soon, they are going to explode into rage and take you with them. Kind of like shaking up a bottle and throwing it at someone.
 
don't know the best, but hands down worst is english.

what a pretentious language to think it can break so many rules and force kids to learn on a word by word basis.
 
Originally posted by: ZetaEpyon
Best: English
Worst: English
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The sheer amount of literature, as well as the willingness/ability to incorporate new words and ideas makes english great. Unfortunately, that same tendency makes english a hodgepodge of other languages and rife with irregularities.
 
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