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Partly, no doubt, because those "buzzings and nasal vowels" are so difficult to pronounce and so annoying to listen to.

Think how the whiny, irritating, nasal twang of so many Americans sounds to people in Britain!! Even I find it grating, and I grew up around it!!

Oh, for the strong, simple, basic consonants of ancient Greek, and its fundamental, pure vowels!! Just the right blend of r's, n's and s's -- the soupçon of garlic in the tasteful salad of good phonology! Almost none of the jaw-breaking and tongue-twisting consonant clusters which clutter up English phonology. In our language, they are so rudely thrown into promiscuous contact that even native English speakers cannot pronounce them properly!! Consider how the word "clothes" is so difficult to pronounce that in normal speech it is the same as "close" (as in, "Close the door")!!

It is ancient Greek which should be the world language, as it was in the ancient Mediterranean world, and not the barbaric yowl of English!!


Last edited by numan; 12/29/12 07:11 PM.