Re: Tolkien on Gaelic

Originally Posted by
MeghanWalker
If your language is harsh...
If your language is soft, flowey, romantic...
...tough languages, very strong and "rough".
I reject that there is any truth to the suggestion that there is, or can be, such a thing as a "harsh lanuage", or a "soft language", or a "strong language", or a "rough language".
I believe that these attributes are within the mind of the beholder and are projected onto the language, usually by a person not brought up speaking it.
In addition I am uneasy about the ethnic stereotypes which were put forward.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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