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To: cornfedcowboy

The Filipina women I worked with click-clacked in Tagalog. It might be the most off-putting language I’ve heard.


74 posted on 09/20/2026 4:06:39 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Tagalog has few click clack sounds in it. It is related to Hawaiian and is easy to learn because it has a lot of Spanish and English root words.

Now if you want clicks, try some of the Bantu languages in southern Africa, which not only have various clicks but have implosive consonants (e.g. B pronounced by inhaling instead of exhaling).

77 posted on 09/20/2026 4:16:59 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: MayflowerMadam

>The Filipina women I worked with click-clacked in Tagalog. It might be the most off-putting language I’ve heard.

It can be a pretty violent language. Even worse when it switches to a dialect...


93 posted on 09/20/2026 5:09:51 PM PDT by nevadapatriot
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