What A Silly Made Up Language - Tumblr Posts
1 year ago
The closer a language is to yours, the easier it is to understand, the further it is from you, the harder it is to understand. But there's a sort of uncanny valley right in the middle that makes a language sound silly.
I'm an English speaker. German sounds similar, I can even find cognates sometimes. Mandarin Chinese sounds completely alien, but I can understand that it is a language.
But Dutch, Dutch sounds hilarious. Dutch sounds like a clown version of English. I wonder why that is.
I've heard Spanish speakers say similar things about Portuguese, which makes me think there's some sort of linguistic Silly Zone.
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everytime i hear something in portugese it always takes me a solid 30 seconds to realize it's another language and not just my brain fucking
up my spanish listening skills lol
big adhd brain confusion
also fully agree with the dutch analysis
what a silly made up language
(all languages are made up!! that's why they're ever-changing!)
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