this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
81 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

1454 readers
60 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Spanish / Portuguese … but can’t explain why. I think it’s mostly cultural vibe based.

Gotta say, for me, all the techy programming language replies in here are pretty lame. It’s fine that the fediverse leans techy at this stage, great even. But a thread like this was really looking for some linguistics and personal experiences with learning and understanding languages. If you can’t help but turn any topic into one about programming, that’s cool, but doesn’t mean you have to add some noise (seriously a ruby v Python conversation in a thread about seductive human languages?!) to every conversation that happens to use the word “language”.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Personally Spanish and Portuguese are a world apart. Portugese is beautiful to hear, very melodic. Spanish feels ugly to me, I can't stand the hissing 's' and the thick 'v' pronounced as 'b'.

[–] carlosfm@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

As a portuguese, I understand and agree with this, although it's my native language, we don't notice or value our own language. I love to hear italian, it sounds like music

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spanish speaker here, I also agree with the assessment- though my preference is the opposite

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, preference be preferences, I love the spanish people.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I hear you. I like both.

load more comments (3 replies)