(May 20, 2025 at 10:40 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:But what this vid shows too is (imho) that, of course, singers (and other poets) will "soften" up the language to make it appeal more. The "hard consonants" you mentioned ...she has softened them substantially, right?(May 20, 2025 at 8:25 am)emjay Wrote: Lol, tell me it sounds like that after listening to this:
I think her voice is beautiful, and it's a nice inspiring song. There's just some real subtleties in the pronunciation, that I think this song really brings out... it just flows so nicely.
She has a beautiful voice ... but the German still sounds German, angular and glottal.
@emjay
Abundance of rules of the german languages: If you ask a german schoolkid, any german schoolkid, they will tell you that all those rules arent the problem. Its the effing number of exceptions from those rules that drive em mad.
Board games:
Mühle (Cowboy checkers)
Halma, actually invented by an American
Mikado
@John 6IX Breezy
German end English being similar: Of course they are. They share the same branch on the language tree, both being germanic languages. If you go to northern Germany (coast), geographically closer to England, you will figure that it sounds even more like english.
As promised some saxon dialect. Flirting in german saxon. I just cant stop laughing at this. Whats you guys impression?
@Thumpalumpacus as you may notice, all the hard "k"s have become soft "g"s

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