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what is the language of love?

my friend was just telling me how someone had told her that latin was the language of love. I always considered Italian or French to be languages of love and just wondered what you all thought the most romantic languages were?

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L'amour.

I actually think English is really underrated for this kind of thing. Cellar door. :cool:

Reply 3

Ink

Cocaine Socialist

Cellar door. :cool:

lol I hate it when people try to talk about how that phrase sounds good using an American accent. It sounds terrible with an American accent. Gahh.

*ahem*
I'm voting for Italian. Latin doesn't sound sexy at all. Besides, most people probably wouldn't understand you if you started babbling to them in Latin. What's the point of having a "language of love" nobody can understand?

anything but german

I like Swedish. I met the most adorable Swedish guy once. :love:

Since that's not on the list, I'll go with French. :smile:

Reply 6

generalebriety

Ink

And you understand Italian?

I'm going with German. Except this poll seems to be biased towards Romance languages (what a coincidence) and, for no reason at all apart from seeming cultural arrogance, English. And as that's the closest to German, I'm going with it. British English, though.

Ahhh Italiano...

generalebriety

And you understand Italian?

A bit.
I could understand it very well as a child, but alas, I have forgotten most of it by now, despite the Italian classes I took in grade 9.

Does it matter though?
The post wasn't about me. I just think it's silly to talk in a forgotten language. If I woke up one day and could suddenly speak Ancient Egyptian, I wouldn't go around writing love letters and winning people over speaking it. People would be like "... :confused:

I have no idea what you're saying."

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generalebriety

Ink

I have no idea what you're saying."

No, but if you went round speaking Italian I'd have very little idea what you were saying. I could grasp little bits, but only through the Italian accent and my knowledge of French, Spanish and Latin. If, on the other hand, you went round speaking Finnish or Danish, I'd equally well have no idea what you were saying.

And Latin is still spoken (and is, in fact, the official language) in Vatican City. It's not "forgotten", unless by that you mean that you've forgotten about it and that's all that matters. :rolleyes:

Ok, it's smaller than Italy. But that doesn't make Latin any less a living language spoken by many people.

Reply 10

xjes7obax

Spanish

The others are overrated... :rolleyes:

Reply 11

Murphyen

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Seriously - what could be better than this?

German.

Murphyen

Seriously - what could be better than this?

a full frontal lobotomy.

Reply 14

李星河

Portuguese and Esperanto

Reply 15

李星河

I think that Esperanto is very regular and easy to learn!

Chinese

I thought that they were French, German and English, when came from Latin.

German in my books!

Reply 18

Trepur99

For me, it is French. All my favorite and most romantic films are french or at least in france, and that has been enough to persuade me. Latin's the best language, but it can't be that romantic if you can only write it (or am I doing it a disservice there!?)