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Why Do We Find Some Languages More Beautiful Than Others?

IDEAS Posted: March 7, 2014 1:07 am

Bernd Brunner (aggrieved): “People often describe German, my native language, as hard and aggressive. They relish criticizing its guttural sounds, long compound words, and the sentence structure … According to popular accounts, it was five hundred years ago when the apparently polyglot Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, declared ‘I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.'”

IDEAS Published: 03.04.14

Read the story in The Smart Set Published: 03.04.14

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