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To: AnAmericanMother

It is an aesthetic shame that Gaelic in its several forms is not long for this world. It is one of a couple of languages that seem to have been designed for women's voices and is a delight for a man to listen to when spoken by women. Native speakers do not know that delight because they cannot hear the musical quality of their language; they hear only the meaning. Vietnamese is another such language and Cantonese, to a lesser extent.


36 posted on 01/03/2007 6:51:46 AM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: ThanhPhero
You can always tell a Gaelic-speaking man because the voice is pitched higher than is normal for spoken English.

That's true even if the speaker is naturally a bass or baritone. There's also a clarity to the enunciation in English that's very distinctive.

I would greet such folks in the Gaelic . . . and I was never wrong. Only problem was they usually spoke a lot more Gaelic than I did . . .

47 posted on 01/03/2007 8:30:23 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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