Ours were all athletes to boot. The Director of All the Other Sports Nobody Really Cares About, or whatever their official title was, came from Finland and brought in lots of Finnish athletes for things like golf, tennis, soccer, etc. The language just has too many hard sounds due to its overuse of consonants. When they were walking in packs chattering in their native tongue, it sounded like a flock of clucking chickens. I think all the Scandinavian countries are like that, but am most familiar with the Finnish, having only encountered a few Scandinavian and Norwegian people in my journey.
Finland is actually not part of Scandinavia and Finnish belongs to it's very own language group. Interesting to hear that you think they overuse consonants though as the general "Finnish bashing" in Sweden is about the Finnish language's overuse of vowells. Probably the reason I don't find it weird is because I speak it.
Don't know how it is as a written language but it sounds like all consonants to me when spoken...maybe because I am from the South and we speak softly
Mine too! Much betta. And only New Englandas know why Bernie says "Obomer always said........." And BTW, "town" doesn't have an "a" in it, huh ChrisL?
You must be from Massachusetts! Fall Riva: crime capitol of N.E. (or at least it used to be. It has been a while). If you're from old N.E. you might know where Tunk City is.
So true. I once heard a linguist say that the New England accent is the most correct, authentic one in the U.S. It took me a long time to understand what he meant.
Red-haired lasses with Irish, Scot, or Scotch-Irish accents do it for me. Must be something in the genes, a memory from the ancestral homeland.
Sexy people sound sexy regardless of their accent. Non sexy people sound non sexy regardless of their accent.
