Most dominant-sounding language?

[SEVERUSMAX]

German or Turkish? Just my first two guesses.

 

[oneguy4fun]

I thought of German right away.

 

[Scotsman69]

Has to be German. But Scots comes a close second. And no, it doesn't sound like English, though most vocabulary is the same.

 

[Adre]

No contest, Klingon.

 

[RedButterflySlut]

No contest, Klingon.

Made me think of this. Klingon mating ritual.

 

[Scentofawoman]

I find Sankrit can be ominous depending no the tamber and fluidity at which the verses are spoken.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

I find Sankrit can be ominous depending no the tamber and fluidity at which the verses are spoken.

*shiver*

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Turkish, too, if you do it right.

 

[DVS]

I vote for Klingon, for sure. No question. Maybe German would come a distant second.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Esperanto.

"Repeat after me, slut: World unity through an easily-learned, politically neutral constructed international auxiliary language!"

 

[carlieplum]

It's all about the speaker, IMHO. Once you've heard obsequious waiters and long-winded professors go on in German, it doesn't sound so dominant. The right person can make French sound menacing.

 

[RedButterflySlut]

It's all about the speaker, IMHO. Once you've heard obsequious waiters and long-winded professors go on in German, it doesn't sound so dominant. The right person can make French sound menacing.

I agree with this complete. Tonality, pitch and intent make the language sound dominant. A guy with a sexy voice can seduce a girl in any language.

 

[rosco rathbone]

No way. Japanese as spoken by a man.

I used to make my Japanese friend giggle and turn red and cover her face with her hand by barking what very little Japanese I knew at her in the most peremptory tone possible. "You sound like yakuza!" she'd say.

 

[Etoile]

No way. Japanese as spoken by a man.

I used to make my Japanese friend giggle and turn red and cover her face with her hand by barking what very little Japanese I knew at her in the most peremptory tone possible. "You sound like yakuza!" she'd say.

Oh lord no. I am surrounded by Japanese-speaking men the instant I step out my front door, and I have never thought they sounded dominant. Today I noticed one of the male storefront shills was trying to do the female storefront shill voice, over in Harajuku. That was mindboggling. The female voice is shrill and nasal, and I swear that's what he was going for. Horrific, I tell you!

 

[Fuckette]

Made me think of this. Klingon mating ritual.

blast from the past

 

[rosco rathbone]

Oh lord no. I am surrounded by Japanese-speaking men the instant I step out my front door, and I have never thought they sounded dominant. Today I noticed one of the male storefront shills was trying to do the female storefront shill voice, over in Harajuku. That was mindboggling. The female voice is shrill and nasal, and I swear that's what he was going for. Horrific, I tell you!

Every time I hear spoken Japanese, it makes "please pass the salt" sound like "kill all the prisoners and burn the town to the foundations"...but I guess I get all my Japanese from war and gangster movies, not real life.

 

[Etoile]

Every time I hear spoken Japanese, it makes "please pass the salt" sound like "kill all the prisoners and burn the town to the foundations"...but I guess I get all my Japanese from war and gangster movies, not real life.

You would be disappointed here, then! Because I don't understand Japanese, I get a good sense of the tone without the distraction of the meaning, and I haven't picked out a single Japanese dom.

 

[rosco rathbone]

You would be disappointed here, then! Because I don't understand Japanese, I get a good sense of the tone without the distraction of the meaning, and I haven't picked out a single Japanese dom.

Are they a pervy race generally? What about chikans, otakus, hentai, and all that?

 

[Etoile]

Are they a pervy race generally? What about chikans, otakus, hentai, and all that?

Incredibly perverted in books and on film, incredibly uptight in person. I think rida might back me up on this. I wore a shirt to work one day that had a scoop neck - not a v-neck, just a scoop neck - and I got asked to please cover up more in the office. God forbid anybody see my chest, let alone cleavage! So they're really uptight in person, but...well...this is the land of tentacle sex cartoons, yaoi, porn movies where the women all sound like they're in great pain, etc.

 

[pixxie91]

German, defs. And Russian, I've found at times actually.

 

[Lady Reiha]

I'm 1/2 Korean and I get told from time to time that when I speak it, I tend to sound domineering.

Same when I speak Icelandic too.

 

[ownedsubgal]

i have a tender spot for men who speak the old Baltic...Lithuanian or Latvian. an everyday conversation about the lunch menu just sounds so aggressive and demanding.

also a West African accent with that tinge of French will make me tremble a bit every time.

 

[YourCaptor]

i have a tender spot for men who speak the old Baltic...Lithuanian or Latvian. an everyday conversation about the lunch menu just sounds so aggressive and demanding.

also a West African accent with that tinge of French will make me tremble a bit every time.

My mamas side came from Prussia.

 

[Blase]

Every time I hear spoken Japanese, it makes "please pass the salt" sound like "kill all the prisoners and burn the town to the foundations"...but I guess I get all my Japanese from war and gangster movies, not real life.

In that case I don't think it's the language as much as the situations and the actors.

Toshiro Mifune sounded that way even when he was speaking English.

 

[ownedsubgal]

My mamas side came from Prussia.

hmm, German/Prussian...yeah, that works.