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WackyTabbacy42069 @reddthat.com

2y ago

What language do you find the most seductive, and what about it makes you feel that way?

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Kotlin or if I'm really in the mood, Python
- You had me at the first part and turned me off at the second.
  
  I'd never write an entire application in python, but sometimes i have a few too many and think that dynamic typing might be fun
- You know you want that syntactic sugar
- I’d say Rust is better though

My dumass thought op meant programming language, and I spent 2 minutes thinking of some sarcastic reply.
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- I know it's wrong, but there's something about the forbiddenness of JS that makes it sexy.
  Oh, baby, you wanna do what with my strings?
  Jokes aside, Scala or Haskell, hands down. Those are sexy languages that make gorgeous code.
- Printf(hello);
  Ladies go crazy with C.
  
  This won't work, and it's called C++, and that's C, not C++.

Whatever language the opposite of French is
- Québécois French?
  
  Fukn slaughtered an entire province lmao
  Play a goose honking and then Chretien delivering a speech and let Americans try to guess which is which
  
  Ouai la
  
  Nah, Canadians are cool. Approved.

English because I can understand it
- Came here to say this. But like.. English with a sexy accent.
  
  For me that sexy accent is a Scottish one and I'm not talking Glaswegian council estate

People have only had luck with me when they’ve spoken English. Otherwise it’s hard for me to understand their answers to such questions as “your place or mine?” or “dear god what are you gonna do with that spatula?!”.
- My hovercraft is full of eels
- Spatula? Ahh, a human of culture, I see.

For me, Japanese, someone like Atsuko Tanaka or aya hirano could whisper whatever they want to My lesbian ass
- Would your ass whisper back
  
  To atsuko? Hell yeah Aya? Probably needs a bit convincing

Spanish / Portuguese … but can’t explain why. I think it’s mostly cultural vibe based.
Gotta say, for me, all the techy programming language replies in here are pretty lame. It’s fine that the fediverse leans techy at this stage, great even. But a thread like this was really looking for some linguistics and personal experiences with learning and understanding languages. If you can’t help but turn any topic into one about programming, that’s cool, but doesn’t mean you have to add some noise (seriously a ruby v Python conversation in a thread about seductive human languages?!) to every conversation that happens to use the word “language”.
- Personally Spanish and Portuguese are a world apart. Portugese is beautiful to hear, very melodic. Spanish feels ugly to me, I can't stand the hissing 's' and the thick 'v' pronounced as 'b'.
  
  As a portuguese, I understand and agree with this, although it's my native language, we don't notice or value our own language. I love to hear italian, it sounds like music
  
  Spanish speaker here, I also agree with the assessment- though my preference is the opposite
  
  I hear you. I like both.
- The beauty of a threaded conversation platform is that you can just close threads you're not interested in. Or, apparently, start a new thread removed about them.

Norwegian, it's like Danish but with an attractive accent.

Spanish, because I know enough to understand most of it, but it still feels new and mysterious

French, because of the lower tone of voice

Dutch
Just kidding.
- He even rustig aan

French is the the go-to. Closely followed by Italian. They’re classics for a reason.
- Romantic, even

Klingon. It's so aggressive...tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'
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Finnish! Especially since Iistened to Jukio Kallio's Kuvankaunis album. Listened to it many times.
Maybe it's so alluring to me because it sounds close to hungarian, but at the same time more rythmic and melodic to me.
- Turkish. The same goes for it, try listening something. I really enjoy Almora.
  Edit: te is magyar vagy?
  
  I've had the luck to meet some good Turkish people for a couple of days a few years back, I remember they showed me all kinds of music. I agree, it's also a beautiful language.
  BTW, én is magyar vagyok, igen :) Ugyan itt bojler eladó!

German. It naturally sounds so aggressive that if someone speaks German to you and it doesn't sound rude, they must be trying really hard.
- Hallo, möchtest du meine Steuererklärung sehen? ;)
  
  Lass uns unsere Steuerklassen zusammenlegen
- Softly spoken German in an intimate setting can really do it for me.
  Loudly spoken German can also do it for me for entirely different reasons.
  
  Yeah, I didn't think German was anything special until a few years ago when I attended a German language group just for fun, on a whim. There was a native speaker there that I spoke to, and unexpectedly I just... I don't even know.
  Anyhow, we ended up dating for a while.
  Still have a weakness for the German language.
- Huh. That's interesting. I'm native Spanish speaker and I find German (actually, most Germanic languages including English) a bit toned down, lacking most harsh sounds I associate with aggressive tone.

Romance Latinam sequitur.
/Pater iocus, annus CMXCIX ab urbe condita/
- P.S. Romance folows Latin – dad joke, year 999 since founding the city ;)

Italian for sure. It's so emotional which I really like.

Morse code has a rhythm that just does something to me
- .- .-.. -.- / -.. .. .-. - -.-- / - --- / -- .
  
  .. / -.. --- -. .----. - / .-- .. .--. . / .- ..-. - . .-. / .. / .--. --- --- .--.

For me I'd probably say Japanese or French. Spanish is really nice too. Although, those happen to be the 3 languages I want to learn the most too lol

Icelandic! Beautiful language, learned a bit for my honeymoon, it’s a bit of a time capsule to old Norse too.
- Apparently there isn't a lot of language drift in Icelandic, it's one of the few languages that you can read texts from 1000 years ago without any significant loss of meaning. Unlike English where reading anything older than Shakespeare can prove difficult.
  
  Yeah exactly! I think its remoteness helped it survive, only thing now it’s similar to I would say is Faroese.
  Re:Shakespeare yeah it’s the same with Scottish folk and Robert Burns, his poems written in auld Scots. Even for native speakers it takes a bit of time to code switch.
  
  I will say, there are a number of words in middle English that we lost that we need to bring back. Aside from silly ones, there are a number of practical ones like "overmorrow" (the day after tomorrow) and "ereyesterday" (the day after yesterday) which convey the same thought without having to type out an entire phrase.
  Here's a bunch of them:
  https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/09/archaic-words/

I don't think I have a particular language I find seductive. I am a native Spanish speaker, I like Italian for sure and some accents from Spain. But I wouldn't say it's particularly a seductive thing, I think what is seductive is the voice pitch and how the speech is delivered, and that can happen in any language.
- Completely agree, it's how you say it.

Strangely German, because it makes me feel at home. Also a few of the British accents and languages, particularly Welsh, Scottish, and Northern England. I can only imagine that's in my blood somehow.
- Deutsch ist rine schönes Spreache. Ich liebe die klang von es und hoffe dass in mein Zukunft ich can the ganze Sprache lernen
  
  Es macht mir fröh. Ich hoffe eines Tages weider zurück gehen.

English, because I understand it.

Ukrainian, it's so soft it sounds like a water droplets dropping. п'ять

English cause I like it

It would have to be Python. It's just got such syntactical sugar it makes me wet in places I shouldn't be.

Haskell, prologue I'm into the quirks
- Kinky!

Brainfuck or Chef are pretty awesome.

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