Dre wrote:
> 1. Most people's speaking timbre, I experience as not > very aesthetic, and moreover, as unexpressive. That is > especially true for the American dialect, for my > native tongue, which is the Dutch language and others. > German is bit better (although Saxonian and Swabian is > not that great either), French, Spanish, Portuguese > and especially Russian is already really better and > finally there are very good reasons that Italian > became the language of opera.
Italian became the language of opera for no other reason than that of being opera originally Italian! You're confusing cause and consequence.
> The monotonous way in which most people speak in the > countries I first mentioned may sound natural to even > more people, to deal with matters of love and death it > is very inappropriate i.m.o. That television and some > kinds of popmusic have made many people believe > otherwise is extremely sad, but does not change the > above mentioned things.
I have to disagree on that too, sorry! English and German and European Portuguese are stress-timed languages, so they are necessarily less monotonous than Spanish, French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, which are syllable-timed ones.
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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