Questions for JUbbers

[DeafFoxDemon]

I want to know why do people call French "The Language of Love"? I mean, forgive my ignorant,but i really want to know.

 

[unloadonme]

I think it's in the erroneous belief that Frenchmen make better lovers.

 

[JayHawk]

Because if you hear the language being spoken it is like sex coming out of your mouth.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMkXkUzDO6c[/ame]

 

[G-Lexington]

My personal belief on this subject.

French tends to glide through their consonants, and often drops the ones at the ends of words altogether. As such, French tends to be heavy on the vowel sounds, and ends up resembling something like singing. Hawaiian is also heavy on the vowels, and has a similar singing quality to it. Both languages therefore tend to be rather melodious and pleasing to the ear.

Lex

 

[GL]

Klingon, with it's eighty poly-guttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax is to me the true language of love.

 

[RDaniel]

My boyfriend says because it's soft and melodic and when I speak it, he says my mouth hardly opens...?(no idea what he's talking about) I also think people like it because they have no idea what is being said to them. I do not think it's the language of love, maybe because I speak it, but I sure love hearing italian. *melts*


Edit: French "r"

 

[palbert]

Don't forget that much of the early writing was devoted to the Church or to the poetry of the troubadors, who disseminated poetry primarily concerned with the "Courts of Love" then flourishing in Europe. Spain at that time was invaded by the Moors, so that left German and Italian, both then in many dialects, unapproachable Latin, English (not yet a language) and French, winner by default really.

 

[looseliam]

I guess because for some it sounds pretty.

But man, listening to French at-length gives me a headache like no other. Farsi is a close second.

 

[Dodger712]

I read an article on Yahoo last week where it is felt that Italian men are the best lovers. I guess that any language murmured into your ear during sex can be very sexually stimulating. Except Korean. too harsh. I'd think that German might be a bit of a spit bath too. French was considered one of the "romance languages" according to my English professors.

 

[Kulindahr]

The troubador tradition and contests of poetry and singing began in France. Poems and ballads concerning love became very popular. Poets and troubadors actually worked to get as close as possible with imagery of love to unwritten barriers set up by the Church (with a consequence of moving those barriers). So French got a reputation of being flowery in love -- and troubadors got a reputation for seducing anything in sight (and not always female). The fluidity and flowing nature of the language has done a lot to sustain that reputation.

 

[DeafFoxDemon]

Thanks everyone!