Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "What makes some languages sound BEAUTIFUL?" video.

@empress2529 "Entschulden = 7 consonants 3 vowels!" Actually, that's only 5 consonants and 3 vowels. The trigraph "sch" represents a single consonant sound (voiceless postalveolar (sibilant) fricative [ʃ]). That it's written with a trigraph rather than a single letter doesn't matter here because this video deals with the perceived beauty of spoken language, not written language. I don't think German is a particularly consonant heavy language. Also, your example of "Scusa" only has a slightly higher percentage of vowel sounds. In it 40% of the phonemes are vowels whereas in "Entschulden" it's 37.5% vowels, barely a difference.
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@empress2529 The Spanish word "sorpresa" has 5 consonants and 3 vowels. You might still be right about Italian and Spanish being more vowel-heavy but I still wouldn't call German all that consonant-heavy. Btw, I would count the German word "Transzendent" as having 10 consonants because 'z' is pronounced as [ts].
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16:15 I'm not sure that's quite the case. Isn't Marge speaking in a creaky rather than a breathy voice which is kind of the opposite?
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@dr.pingel2447 I just used Google translate to translate it from German to Italian without checking the meaning. How would you say "excuse a debt" in Italian? (Apparently "entschulden" can refer to both excusing and paying off a debt.)
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