Essential Linquistics. Part 3

Apr 17, 2007 22:42

Russian is essentially an articulated wail. --Dan Seriff

Russian and Belarussian are essentially badly spelled Ukrainian. --Andreas Johansson

Rrrrussian essentially is a language that requirrres its speakerrr to have a tongue that worrrks like a vibrrratorrr. --Hangbing Feng
Japanese is essentially the linguistic equivalent of kicking someone's butt. --Danny Wier

Japanese is essentially a language that adopted the world's most complicated writing system, and then made it worse. --Peter Bleackley
Danish is essentially Swedish with a sense of humor. --Anders Engwall 
 Danish is essentially Norwegian, only you drop out all the consonants, skip all the vowels and then mispronounce the rest. 
--David Oftedal

Swedish is essentially the strangest dialect of Dutch I ever heard. --Christophe Grandsire

Icelandic is essentially Björk for those who don't know where Iceland even is. --Sally Caves

German is essentially a philosophical cough. --Luís Henrique

Dutch is essentially English spoken with a French accent by a German. --jmallett 
Written Dutch is essentially German with misspellings one would expect from small German children. --Terrence Griffin

Spanish is essentially bad Italian. --Eugene Holman

Italian is essentially machine gun fire heard from a long way off. --Dan Seriff

Italian is what happened when Romans tried to learn Latin and said "screw it." --Charles Lavergne

French is what happened when Germans tried to learn Latin and said "screw it." --Charles Lavergne
Portuguese is essentially Spanish as spoken by a Russian. --Peter Clark

Portuguese is essentially Spanish spoken while on Viagra. --Danny Wier

Portuguese is essentially Danish posing as a Romance language. --Benct Philip Jonsson

According to generative linguists, all languages are essentially English. --Arnt Richard Johansen

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