Originally Posted by
lostinthewash
I think it's just preference. I'm Canadian - so I spent many years in school learning French, lived in France for a while in my twenties, and I use my now-rusty French when in our Montreal office.
Italian, on the other hand ... very exotic (combined with a thing for Italian men).
I get it.
I'm a big fan of languages ... and I guess I'm relatively talented at it. As a result, I try to find what's cool in all languages I come across. For example, having recently traveled to Sweden, I've been teaching myself Swedish (not that it was in any way practical or necessary) and have been having lots of fun seeing how interrelated Swedish, German and English all are. It's kinda like comparing French, Italian and Spanish.
I've always resented having English as a mother language. It's boring and ugly. But I've come to appreciate the fact that it has one of the most interesting histories of all the languages with which I'm familiar. That and f#@k has got to be about the coolest, most versatile swear word out there. Every language has something neat about it.
