Cats and Vietnamese (Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection))

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:44:17 +1000

phippsmartin@hotmail.com wrote:
> Nor, however, does it give you
> the right to insult Chinese and Vietnamese people by saying they "sound
> like cats".

Not to mention that cats do not sound like Vietnamese speakers.

English speakers, however, do sound like dogs barking, as one
science-fiction writer observed in a short story (I wish I
could remember his name). It is about an American soldier
whom an atomic explosion sends 1000 years back in time,
to Viking Scandinavia. And he dies there. "His language
sounded like a dog barking," says one of the protagonists,
"but he was a brave man." (quoting from very imperfect
memory). Does anyone here know who wrote it?

Mandarin speakers also sound like dogs barking (or like
English speakers).

They say that Tannese speakers (Tanna is an island of
Vanuatu) sound like birds singing. ("They" is my Sakao
informant, and my French-speaking wife, commenting
twenty years apart).

But Vietnamese like cats? Only to people who have never
met a cat or a Vietnamese.

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