A recent blog by Larisa prompts me to ask what languages sound like.
Suggestions
english - a glass of milk
french - chocolate
german - a crunchy nut
American english - bubblegum
Answers on a postcard, please.

I hear languages in the context of how I would like to receive them,
spoken or sung.
e.g.
English - from a doctor
French - from a lover
German - from a marching band chorus
Italian - from an opera singer
American English - from a film star

A French woman once told me that, to the French, english sounds sexy. Rather implausible, don't you think? She obviously had never heard Barnsley.

The true linguistic sound of sex and love is ... Yorkshire.

"Ee, touch me there agen. That's right champion, that is."

Steve
I think you'll find that your comment should read '... ee that's reyt
champion'
Mr Coopey may be able to confirm this

Tha's probably reyt, Steve. I get a bit mixed up on my Yorkshire accents.

Well I did live in Hull for two years, where "phone" is pronounced "fern".

It put me off fern sex for life!

Naar then, naar then, Stivvie lad. Tha'll be gettin' t'ladies guin' wi' trarzzer talk such as that!

Or - as we say in Devon...
Ooo aarr, ma boody!

Talking of aural considerations - which are important in everyday life as well as in the weird scene of performance poetry - I heard ANDREW MOTION on Radio 4's Today programme this morning. His voice, even when reading poetry, is (to me, anyway) particulalry unnattrative, being cold and very middle class.

Hey, it's only how I react to Mr Motion! Others may well feel differently.

And the sexiest voices I've ever heard belong to Mariella Frostrup and Jackson Browne.

I go along with what S.R. is saying.
To my mind there's nothing worse than a colourless thin(?) voice reading poetry. Richard Burton is
justifiably famous, with others close behind. I have a venerable
LP record set of poetry read by
Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson, John
Neville, Stephen Murray, Marius Goring, Donald Douglas and Jill Balcon. What a brilliant array of reading talent. Murray's version of
"Dover Beach" is quite superb!

Yes - voices are very important when it comes to performance or just ordinary dialogue. I find it hard to take seriously baby voices which some mature women can have through no fault of their own. Do you know the ones I mean? Voices like the girl who played 'little voice', who was the secretary in Ab Fab.

Looked at this quickly and thought it said "What does luggage sound like"! (I guess Louis Vuitton suitcases would have a french accent - non?)

Everone `reads` poetry through the ears.

And strangely (I couldn`t explain this) I don`t think that means that they mentally `listen` to it.

Just a feeling I get.

The ironic thing about Little Voice is that Jane Horrocks has a huge voice.

Maybe - but you wouldn't want to read poetry with it.