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[Queequeg]

Catalan has a lot of hard k and qw sounds that I associate with Latin.  Sounds like it, at least.  I'm not really a trained phonologist. 

[Admiral Yi]

celerywing, bettter hide your women.

[Queequeg]

 

Oh, please.  If my ethnic obsession translated in to success with women I would have slept with that gorgeous French-Armenian Sciences Po student in Istanbul, rather than freeze up around her like I had fucking lockjaw. 

[celedhring]

Catalan has a lot of hard k and qw sounds that I associate with Latin.  Sounds like it, at least.  I'm not really a trained phonologist.

The only Latin language I know well enough to compare it to is Spanish, and Spanish' phonology is more differentiated from Latin than Catalan's.

[Queequeg]

Oh man.  That brought up some bad memories.  I remember talking to some Italian Erasmus students with the French-Armenian girl and explaining that I knew where Alessandria and Piedmont in Italy was because I was a huge fan of Umberto Eco.  I'd had some conversations with her about France and Armenia and she suspected I was some kind of vaguely misanthropic autistic savant (not entirely inaccurate but the white-hot intensity of my crush on her didn't help) about Europe and that I was purposefully mangling my pronunciation of Umberto Eco to annoy them, and on my seventh attempt she half-screamed with exasperation "UMBERTO ECO! HE MEANS UMBERTO ECO!"

[Ideologue]

See, that's rude.  If I started shouting at a Spaniard that he wasn't pronouncing "Llewyn Davis" right or something, I'd be a real jerk for doing so.

[Duque de Bragança]

Is the phonology conservative when compared to Castilian or French?

Think Southern French i.e Occitan/Langue d'Oc, influenced by Castilian.

[jimmy olsen]

Japanese fans weren't around for the late 90s/early 00s when Godzilla had ridiculous thighs for about four movies in a row, I guess.

Godzilla's always been chunky.

[Queequeg]

Is the phonology conservative when compared to Castilian or French?

Think Southern French i.e Occitan/Langue d'Oc, influenced by Castilian.

Only time I've been to France was a few hours at Charles de Gaulle in 2010.   

[Ed Anger]

Don't taint it

[Queequeg]

See, that's rude.  If I started shouting at a Spaniard that he wasn't pronouncing "Llewyn Davis" right or something, I'd be a real jerk for doing so.

She was very frank.  It was a turn on.

[garbon]

Don't taint it

It came tainted.

[jimmy olsen]

Oh man.  That brought up some bad memories.  I remember talking to some Italian Erasmus students with the French-Armenian girl and explaining that I knew where Alessandria and Piedmont in Italy was because I was a huge fan of Umberto Eco.  I'd had some conversations with her about France and Armenia and she suspected I was some kind of vaguely misanthropic autistic savant (not entirely inaccurate but the white-hot intensity of my crush on her didn't help) about Europe and that I was purposefully mangling my pronunciation of Umberto Eco to annoy them, and on my seventh attempt she half-screamed with exasperation "UMBERTO ECO! HE MEANS UMBERTO ECO!"

How are you supposed to pronounce Umberto Eco? Seems rather straight forward.

[Queequeg]

I was half-dead from my first real hookah session.  Who knows. 

[Eddie Teach]

How are you supposed to pronounce Umberto Eco? Seems rather straight forward.

Oom bear toe. An English speaker reading phonetically might guess "umm, Bert-o?"