I walked past a family carrying a couch down the street the other day, and they spoke an African language with implosives. They kept yelling a word with an implosive B, and it was a little frightening, so I might have to agree.Abi wrote:Not a fan of implosive.
Boo!Jabechasqvi wrote:Some things that I find unappealing to varying degrees:
— Uvular and pharyngeal consonants
— Schwas and other centralized vowels
— Dutch and especially Afrikaans
I'm sure that it sounding frightening had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they were yelling...din wrote:I walked past a family carrying a couch down the street the other day, and they spoke an African language with implosives. They kept yelling a word with an implosive B, and it was a little frightening, so I might have to agree.Abi wrote:Not a fan of implosive.
Well fuck you too.Jabechasqvi wrote:Some things that I find unappealing to varying degrees:
— Uvular and pharyngeal consonants
— Schwas and other centralized vowels
— Dutch and especially Afrikaans
tuletheweevil wrote:7. Geminate consonants, but mostly vowel length distinctions make my hair combust
Which of those pisses you off?Esmelthien wrote:Well fuck you too.
[tʋɑs mɐʀ ə̃ɴ ˈχʁɑpʲə, mɐʀ ɘk spʁeɪ̯k sɛlf ˈnedəʀlɑnts, ɛn ɜt ɨs mə ˈmudəʀtaˑl, dɵz ɘk fɪnt ɜt ʋɛl ˈjɑməʀ dɑt ɜt so ɔnaˑnˈtʁɛkələk klɪŋt fɵʀ jɑʊ̯.]Jabechasqvi wrote:Which of those pisses you off?Esmelthien wrote:Well fuck you too.
No. Don't apologize for telling Eddy to fuck himself.Esmelthien wrote:It was just a little joke, though.
They asked what I disliked and I said it. I refuse to feel bad for responding to this question.Xephyr wrote:No. Don't apologize for telling Eddy to fuck himself.
Now that depends on the "H" word; an historic sounds fine to me, but an history doesn't.linguofreak wrote:The practice of using "an" with words beginning with H's that the speaker doesn't drop, e.g, /{n hIstorIk ivEnt/, rather than /@ hIstorIk ivEnt/ or /{n IstorIk ivEnt/.
This doesn't make sense. ceceo is, by definition, the complete substitution of /s/ with /T/, so that the phoneme inventory is the same size as that of variety with seseo (which is the total substitution of /T/ with /s/).meltman wrote:I also found that I like moderate sized consonant inventories, which is the main reason I prefer a ceceo accent in my Spanish...I am also ambivalent towards approximant + vowel & diphthong combinations.
I'm in the middle of that I feel your painVuvuzela wrote:I don't like ↗ languages, especially ↗dialects of ↗English with rising intonation at the ends of ↗statements. (Like some younger female speakers from southern California or, more egregiously, imitations thereof.)
Since moving to Australia I've noticed myself doing this more and more. Every time I catch myself I feel disappointed...Vuvuzela wrote:I don't like ↗ languages, especially ↗dialects of ↗English with rising intonation at the ends of ↗statements. (Like some younger female speakers from southern California or, more egregiously, imitations thereof.)
Høy cʲertʲeʏn ar ju øf ðʲe øbdʒʲectyvyti øf ðʲat?kuroda wrote:While everyone is entitled to their personal opinions, I prefer to limit my hatred to objective facts, e.g., that front rounded vowels and palatalization are evil and wrong.
Absolute certainty! I'm inclined to attribute the bizarre and saddening belief in the subjectivity of linguistic aesthetics to, yes, palatalization toxicity syndrome.Hubris Incalculable wrote:Høy cʲertʲeʏn ar ju øf ðʲe øbdʒʲectyvyti øf ðʲat?
Rhotic English makes me wanna puke from arse outta my mouth. Apart from West Country.linguoboy wrote:I think nom rhotic accents are delicious!Abi wrote:I don't like nom rhotic accents in English, even more so if they're American (bahstuhn).
