Name your Favourite Language

[Yagi-Atama]

Ainu. GO

[Tank]

Engrisch

[Ragnar]

Yam-yam.

[roy1967]

German......no doubt about it.

[MariaEvri]

english!

[Medusa]

Arabic. Followed closely by cat 

[OldGit]

Deutsch und Englisch.  Französisch ist eine furchtbare Sprache, nur für Reptilien geeignet.  Griechisch finde ich schön aber ganz schwer.  Ich müßte eigentlich Walisisch lernen, da ich so nah wohne, aber es ist wahnsinnig schwer.

[Gawen]

Klingon

[OldGit]

I should have added: German and English are my favourite modern languages.  IMO the most beautiful language I can comprehend is Old English (Anglo-Saxon), as used before around 1100.  In the hands of a master like Bishop Ælfric, there has never been anything to touch it.  I also love to read good Latin.

OldGit's law: the older the literature, the better the craftsmanship.  There is a good reason for that:  writers like Ælfric would have to mix their own ink and alterations were very difficult on extremely expensive calfskin or hand-made paper. Even the mechanics of writing were not simple.  Therefore when you were composing a sentence you thought long and hard before very carefully writing it down.  Nowadays we can write faster than we think and correct arbitrarily often.  The result - often slapdash expression.

[hismikeness]

German sounds really neat when spoken fluently, and really awful when garbled.
I like Russian too.
Pig-Latin is ossbay.

[Ragnar]

I should have added: German and English are my favourite modern languages.  IMO the most beautiful language I can comprehend is Old English (Anglo-Saxon), as used before around 1100.  In the hands of a master like Bishop Ælfric, there has never been anything to touch it.  I also love to read good Latin.

OldGit's law: the older the literature, the better the craftsmanship.  There is a good reason for that:  writers like Ælfric would have to mix their own ink and alterations were very difficult on extremely expensive calfskin or hand-made paper. Even the mechanics of writing were not simple.  Therefore when you were composing a sentence you thought long and hard before very carefully writing it down.  Nowadays we can write faster than we think and correct arbitrarily often.  The result - often slapdash expression.

I'm going to see the Staffordshire Hoard on August Bank Holiday. Old English is an absolutely fantastic language, especially the Mercian dialect, which JRR Tolkien used as the language of Rohan (Rohirric). 

The vast majority of Old English people hear today is Winchester Standard West Saxon, which is about as representative to Old English as BBC English represents post modern English.

There is a vowel shift which makes the difference between Saxon English and Angle English.

The West Saxons pronounced their vowels as we all recognise them today.  But the Angles didn't, this still exists in atleat one word today, the word "wash" most of us pronounce that "a" as an "o", except in the Black Country where we pronounce it with an "a" yet we pronounce "hammer" with an "o" and a silent "h" "ommer"

"Pass me me ommer".

[Sweetdeath]

German, Japanese, {real} English from England, and Swedish<3 <3



But mm, German..
*purr*

[LegendarySandwich]

The only languages I know are Spanish and English, and Spanish takes longer to same the English equivalent (plus I barely know Spanish; I've only taken a first year course so far), so I'm going to have to go with my native language.

[OldGit]

The vast majority of Old English people hear today is Winchester Standard West Saxon, which is about as representative to Old English as BBC English represents post modern English.

Absolutely.  I live in Mercian, Anglian territory.  But there are very few connected texts of literary interest which are not in the W.S. standard.

The West Saxons pronounced their vowels as we all recognise them today.

Oh no!  Have you ever heard of the great vowel shift in Middle English?

There is a vowel shift which makes the difference between Saxon English and Angle English.

No, just a dialectal difference, which is not the same thing.  Are you confusing this with the great vowel shift in M. E.?

[Davin]

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