On Monday, November 10, 2014 1:58:03 PM UTC-5, la gleki wrote:
2014-11-10 21:38 GMT+03:00 TR NS
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On Monday, November 10, 2014 2:08:02 AM UTC-5, la gleki wrote:
Okay, I thought you were talking about signal to noise ratio.
As for Chinese being aesthetically not pleasing then this was certainly a biased poll. Then why would >1 billion of speakers of various dialects still use it? Why won't they start speaking let's say English instead? :D
300 million have --and learning a new language is not an easy thing to do.
If you read Chinese polls you would certainly find them saying that English is not aesthetically pleasing.
The Chinese find English as having too many consonants and too many consonant clusters. It's hard for them to learn this language. Obviously harder that Korean or Japanese.
But since you were searching English polls no wonder that they are in favor of English.
Search Chinese polls and you'll find the opposite opinion.
So do you actually know Chinese?
I tried to get a feel for the opinions of Chinese/Asian peoples on these matters but its hard to find anything on the Internet not being able to read their languages. Google translate wasn't helpful enough. Fortunately I do have a few Chinese and Japanese relatives so I can at least ask them for their opinion.
Btw, my favorite sounding language is Arabic -- I am trying to be as objective as I possibly can be.