What’s your least favourite language

Hindi, especially the Hindi terms that have become somewhat common in the US.

Vrashniprithiyani yourself, poo.
 
Esperanto is the dumbest language by far second only to newspeak politically correct peoplekind version of English. But yeah. Esperanto is the most useless language in the world considering that nobody adopts it so it never helps you if you learn it.
 
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Scottish Gaelic, it's been a dead gay irrelevant language for 100s of years but the SNP want to put it on everything, despite how ahistorical it is in 99% of circumstances.
 
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@Fading puppy syndrome French Canadian women sound hot, though. Weirdly enough, French from France sound annoying and pretentious on blokes, but quite attractive on birds. French Canadian on blokes is tolerable, 'cos it doesn't sound nearly as... snobby.

Anyway, my least favourite language would probably be Tagalog. It sounds like a loud, noisy, slow, whiny mess. I've thought about banging Filipino chicks, but, unfortunately, they'd probably speak Tagalog, rather than Spanish (the other majority language, I think.
 
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@User names must be unique I feel the same way about the Cornish language. It used to be a distinct tribal Celtic tongue, but what proud Cornish people call the "revived" "language" simply sounds like a Bristolian trying out some cobbled together, country-fisherman pidgin thing.
 
Hebrew. Its an awful sounding language and every time i have to listen to it for more than 8 minutes I believe its akin to being a terrorist in Guantanamo.
 
Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
@Fading puppy syndrome French Canadian women sound hot, though. Weirdly enough, French from France sound annoying and pretentious on blokes, but quite attractive on birds. French Canadian on blokes is tolerable, 'cos it doesn't sound nearly as... snobby.
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Oh, that's nearly a universal thing. A foreign accent on an attractive person of the opposite sex is almost always hot. Exact same accent on a person of the same sex can sound awful.

Works for almost all languages, there's some kind of filter in our brain even if you're just imagining listening to them:
Norwegian woman: "Ooo ja, I am Ahhnna..."
Norwegian man: "Urdy-burdy hurky-wurky"
 
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Overly Serious said:
Oh, that's nearly a universal thing. A foreign accent on an attractive person of the opposite sex is almost always hot. Exact same accent on a person of the same sex can sound awful.

Works for almost all languages, there's some kind of filter in our brain even if you're just imagining listening to them:
Norwegian woman: "Ooo ja, I am Ahhnna..."
Norwegian man: "Urdy-burdy hurky-wurky"
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Good point, actually. It's why a lot of blokes like German and Swedish girls, as well. To some degree, as well, in my case (again), I love most Celtic (Scottish, Irish/Northern Irish, and Welsh accents) brogues on women, but I can just about tolerate/can't take it seriously if it's strong/rural/fisherman-sounding on a big geezer, at the risk of calling a possible stereotype out. I also have the same attitude to your standard Afrikaans accent, too.
 
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Esperanto is a fake ass Marxist language that people keep trying to make happen for some reason.
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I first came across this language in Oblivion of all games. Because of that, I associate Esperanto with crazy Lovecraftian cults. If someone ran up to me speaking it, I'd run for my life and my sanity.
 
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Scottish Gaelic, it's been a dead gay irrelevant language for 100s of years but the SNP want to put it on everything, despite how ahistorical it is in 99% of circumstances.
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Gaelic is the most based gigachad of languages and immediately makes the speaker at least 82% cooler, and I am definitely not just saying that because that's what I'm learning right now
 
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English, it's the bastard child of an unholy mixture of languages and it shows, the spelling is so goddam inconsistent that amerimutts hold contests about it.
 
Agent Abe Caprine said:
I first came across this language in Oblivion of all games. Because of that, I associate Esperanto with crazy Lovecraftian cults. If someone ran up to me speaking it, I'd run for my life and my sanity.
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But I think Esperanto is going away / gone fwiw. A friend told me of his encounter with an old man on a train who talked to him about Esperanto. The man was a real proponent who talked passionately about it. My friend said it was really quite sad - this man truly believed in some kind of reverse Tower of Babel dream where a common and better language could be developed which would bring people together and help eliminate war in some global unified one nation.

But I haven't heard anybody mention Esperanto in years until your post brought that anecdote to mind.

It's an interesting idea to make a new standard language. To strip and re-design it like refactoring a code base until all the cruft and the inconsistencies are gone - smoothed down to a nice efficient thing with clean definitions and a single authoritative panel of experts making revisions to it. You can see why such a thing would be a dream of Globohomo.

Which segues neatly into this:

N Space said:
English, it's the bastard child of an unholy mixture of languages and it shows, the spelling is so goddam inconsistent that amerimutts hold contests about it.
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The inconsistencies contain a goldmine of information. The reason pronunciation can be surprising is because it betrays the legacy of how people used to speak. Most people today pronounce "what" as 'wot' but you can still hear the old form in the American South. Listen to the judge in My Cousin Vinney when he asks about the two yutes. (That's assuming you can hear any of the dialogue of the sound of Marissa Tomei's looks).


I like the depth contained in the English language and the fact that endless invasions have left it with three different ways to say anything.
 
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Portuguese. It's the Simian inbred rapebaby of the Romantic languages. Why can't Brazilians speak Spanish like a respectable 3rd World shithole? At least Spanish sounds cool and flows nicely.

(Apologies to @General Emílio Médici, nothing personal).
 
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Unarmed Gunman said:
Esperanto is a fake ass Marxist language that people keep trying to make happen for some reason.
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This one is the true and honest answer. Even the most prescriptivist of linguists will agree that Esperanto is not just a fake ass Marxist language, but a fake ass Marxist language for NERDS and NECKBEARDS that browse Reddit. Reddit didn’t exist when Esperanto was first thought of, but if it had, they would’ve browsed it and made the first ever Esperanto subreddit, no doubt.

Varretnon847 said:
It looks and sounds like Russian but if the speaker is retarded.
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I just don’t get the way they spell their I’s. I like “и” way better.
 
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