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Date: 2009-11-05 05:41 pm (UTC)From:Indeed! I think most people associate German with old WW2 movies and Castle Wolfenstein and Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is really a shame.
Regional accents may also play a role. I actually sat in on a lecture (on post-war German foreign policy, of all things) because the professor was from Austria and I liked his accent. It was round and soft.
I agree. French is overrated. It sounds like people talking with marbles in their mouths, but folks are all "French is beautiful! The language of love!" Ick. My guess is that it has a different cadence than English and fewer cognates, so it's different and "pretty," whereas German has a similar cadence and a lot of cognates (since English is a Germanic language, after all), so it sounds "ugly" because it's similar to our daily speech.
That video is interesting! I'd never heard of the band before. 99 Luftballons has a similar flowy sound, too.