It's funny, the sort of place one language adopts in the minds — the ears — of their neighbors who speak another language. For English speakers, Italian is the preeminent language of love. Not German, which is what you might speak to your horse. German sounds rough and guttural to us, when really it is a delightful and musical language. For E…
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