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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:07:24 No.3697042 View View Reply Original Report

How does English sound to non-English speakers?
Do we sound intelligent or stupid?
Does it sound slightly scary like German and Russian or sexy like French or just strange like Chinese?
I'm genuinely curious as to how we sound to people around the world

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:08:38 No.3697043 Report

Quoted By: >>3697047 >>3697058 >>3697067 >>3697069 >>3697116

>>3697042
it sounds kind of childish and very Sims-like. Not scary like german, american accents sound a little goofy while the british sound more like a wise language.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:11:10 No.3697044 Report

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>>3697042
it sounds exactly the same

they just can't understand it

I can tell how you might mix this up

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:13:02 No.3697045 Report

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>>3697042
It sounds easy-going and cold.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:13:33 No.3697046 Report

Quoted By: >>3697090

>>3697042
It sounds ok.
I quite like that accent that people from the south of the United States have. Also, that Australian accent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:15:10 No.3697047 Report

Quoted By: >>3697051 >>3697060

>>3697043
I cant wait to tell you what canadian accents sound like....

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:15:22 No.3697048 Report

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Sounds a bit soulless but apart from that it's fine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:16:27 No.3697049 Report

Quoted By: >>3697068

>>3697042
waleguen wha wha yo yo wal

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:16:55 No.3697050 Report

Quoted By: >>3697062 >>3697071

>>3697042
its meh. heres a video that perfectly allows you to hear english but not understand a word of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:17:42 No.3697051 Report

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>>3697047
What are ute talkin aboot?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:17:56 No.3697052 Report

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It sound like the language of S’s

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:18:59 No.3697053 Report

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>>3697042
weird

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:19:57 No.3697054 Report

Quoted By: >>3697064

>>3697042
English sounds rougher than French, but it's easier to learn and the pronounciation makes it intimidating.
I guess that's the main difference between a language born of roman latin, like French, and a Germanic/Celtic meltingpot like English.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:20:20 No.3697055 Report

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>>3697042
>sexy like French

French is like Arabic, rough and filthy

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:20:30 No.3697056 Report

Quoted By: >>3697059

american women speaking is so fucking embarrassing, men are alright
british ppl are alright excepct children/teenagers

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:21:17 No.3697057 Report

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This Italian lad made a song that parodied English as all the kids were singing English pop songs in Italy without understanding it. It's pretty fun.

https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:23:01 No.3697058 Report

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>>3697043
>British
>Wise

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:23:39 No.3697059 Report

Quoted By: >>3697087

>>3697056
american buzzfeed women are the worst
"its like very misogynistic" lmao
Also, I cant say. Probably you should try asking somewher people doen speak english, and not in english.
But i can say english spelling is completely retarded. and your semantics suck dick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:23:55 No.3697060 Report

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>>3697047
Oafish? If so absolutely agreed. Best American accent is southern. The farther north you go the worse it gets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:24:17 No.3697061 Report

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>>3697042
Depends heavily on the accent, in general it doesn't evoke any strong feelings either way.

Most American accents do sound fairly neutral compared to other languages, but the southern ones do make you sound a bit slower.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:24:18 No.3697062 Report

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>>3697050
Yeah I watched that, but the tenor and cadence allowed me to feel like I'm kinda understanding what they're saying rather than a non-English person not having a fucking clue as to what they're saying aside from the fact that things are getting a little heated

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:24:25 No.3697063 Report

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>>3697042
slurred english sounds like a psychopath
hard annunciated english sounds like civilized German
southern draw sounds confident

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:25:21 No.3697064 Report

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I've been wondering the same thing OP has and this >>3697054 is the closet thing I've seen to an answer. Can anyone else compare english to another sound if you can't describe it that well?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:26:00 No.3697065 Report

Quoted By: >>3697077

>>3697042
german is not scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPc1cfS-oQ

also my language is for 90 % similar to german

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:26:15 No.3697066 Report

Quoted By: >>3697104

I honestly can't tell, English was taught from birth and up in my family, mother is American and father is Swedish. However were a child raised by me and my wife it sure as well wouldn't speak the Norwegian monkey language, it's linguistically too poor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:27:36 No.3697067 Report

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>>3697043
>Sims-like
Like Swedish?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:29:32 No.3697068 Report

Quoted By: >>3697083

>>3697049
Underrated.

Enjoy, that's how you sound to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIzaEVfgP0

>song starts 1:20

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:29:43 No.3697069 Report

Quoted By: >>3697114

>>3697043
You honestly think german sounds scary?
The way many germans talk nowadays sounds very faggy to me.

You probably only know german from WW2 recordings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:29:52 No.3697070 Report

Quoted By: >>3697072

>>3697042
German here
as a child had strong opinions of how other languages sound. i didnt understand any of them so it was unbiased. i found Italian to be the best sounding and English to be the worst sounding. sorry.

now, i think that non-rhotic dialects (e.g. british, australian) sound okay, while rhotic dialects (american) sound absolutely horrible, especiall on women

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:30:19 No.3697071 Report

Quoted By: >>3697075 >>3697076

>>3697050
2:24 "Explain for me to display the joe drink all around the massportation town while I formast the poe for cream and and ff! What for I chose foreen and all? And what for I bleed the whole chase, Patreen? You wanna get for what?"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:31:58 No.3697072 Report

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>>3697070
>now, i think that non-rhotic dialects (e.g. british, australian) sound okay, while rhotic dialects (american) sound absolutely horrible, especiall on women
Funny, I am the other way around. Non-rhotic accents sound bizarre and hilarious to me. My native accent is West Coast, aka a sloppier lazier version of Midwestern neutral

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:32:19 No.3697073 Report

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I live in the south. Have my entire life.
"Yall" is a common phrase.
After turning 23, I was flown to indianapolis for training. The northern way they speak was like hearing fingers on a chalk board.
Went to a bar a restraunt with a bar. Our hosts asked if we wanted a "Soda pop". Wtf? I ordered a beer and sat at the bar. Didnt even care if it made me look bad. Vowed to never travel up north ever again. The northern accents are cringy. Think fargo

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:33:35 No.3697074 Report

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>>3697042
Simple and crude especially american-english.
Old english was such a beautiful language, it's a shame it got butchered into its present day form.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:33:42 No.3697075 Report

Quoted By: >>3697084

>>3697071
Oh man. When I dream reading paragraphs feels like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:34:04 No.3697076 Report

Quoted By: >>3697091

>>3697071
yes the video falls apart when they start using real words.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:34:12 No.3697077 Report

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>>3697065
I like chicken, but this is gross af.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:34:30 No.3697078 Report

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>>3697042
souns like language of someone who would let nigger fuck his wife infront of him

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:34:49 No.3697079 Report

Quoted By: >>3697080

All I know is that whenever is speak portuguese in central europe everyone starts looking at me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:36:16 No.3697080 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697079
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:36:54 No.3697081 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697042
>How does English sound to non-English speakers?
Like how the Sims sound

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:37:05 No.3697082 Report

Quoted By: >>3697119

>>3697042
sounds empty and cold, boring

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:37:44 No.3697083 Report

Quoted By: >>3697102 >>3697108 >>3697110 >>3697113

>>3697068
>Metallica is underrated
Cool, got any Chilean metal that was so good it went global and had the band performing concerts in Russia? I didn't think so third world scum, enjoy your crime and dirt roads.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:38:41 No.3697084 Report

Quoted By: >>3697096

>>3697075
same here. I literally can't see words when I dream.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:38:44 No.3697085 Report

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>>3697042
Not latin based. Chunky sounding but not like german. Everything a german says sounds like an insult. Never heard arabic in real life. (Gracias Dios)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:39:21 No.3697086 Report

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English is the greatest language ever. If there was a better language we would all be speaking that right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:39:42 No.3697087 Report

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>>3697059
Standardized spelling for a language with a range of dialects and accents. Fa exampil, if i were ta spell fenetically, 'n all othah englesh speakahs were ta do tha same, th'n tha entiah language would be neah incomphrehensibil.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:39:58 No.3697088 Report

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It sounds gay desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:40:19 No.3697089 Report

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How would we know everyone here speaks english

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:40:43 No.3697090 Report

Quoted By: >>3697100 >>3697117 >>3697122

>>3697046
The southern accent has become a falsehood as of late.

I know women from both South Carolina and Texas who can turn it on and off as circumstances demand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:41:05 No.3697091 Report

Quoted By: >>3697097

>>3697076
That pineapple sparkler cake tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:42:00 No.3697092 Report

Quoted By: >>3697099

>>3697042
Dude listen to dutch people talk on YouTube. Its pretty close to what it would be like

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:42:15 No.3697093 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697042
>Russian
>Scary

Kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:42:31 No.3697094 Report

Quoted By: >>3697101

>>3697042
It sounds sophisticated compared to other germanic languages.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:42:49 No.3697095 Report

Quoted By: >>3697115

Somewhat like Dutch, depending on the accent it would be neutral or a bit dorky. As a child I was mostly bothered by the lack of non rolling Rs which I was very fond of.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:42:54 No.3697096 Report

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>>3697084
Shit just got Satanic

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:43:40 No.3697097 Report

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>>3697091
what the fuck is this? bitch this is just a pineapple with sparklers in it youre going to have to leave.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:43:57 No.3697098 Report

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>After reading these posts

Get ready for all your non-English woman bowing down before I'll superior English Sims cock

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:44:43 No.3697099 Report

Quoted By: >>3697103

>>3697092
That sounds completely normal to me. Nothing exotic or threatening at all. I simply don't understand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:45:03 No.3697100 Report

Quoted By: >>3697106

>>3697090
>knowing two dialects of English
>one formal
>one informal

Who cares? I speak the common American when travelling, it's easier for people to understand instead of my coarse and rough Yankee accent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:45:44 No.3697101 Report

Quoted By: >>3697105 >>3697111 >>3697126

>>3697094
You sound like a Asian/Arab mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlIw7GiHUkc

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:46:37 No.3697102 Report

Quoted By: >>3697765

>>3697083
pantera is from Chile

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:46:52 No.3697103 Report

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>>3697099
Congratulations

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:47:42 No.3697104 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697066
>Norwegian monkey language

Thanks, you just named my band.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:47:47 No.3697105 Report

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>>3697101
I heard something that sounded like ISIS celebration when the fish was pulled out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:48:15 No.3697106 Report

Quoted By: >>3697112

>>3697100
Language is 1/10th of your identity. You should never apologize for it. Ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:48:40 No.3697107 Report

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I think that in structure and efficiency it is similar to German, I think because English is originally Germanic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:49:36 No.3697108 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697083
South American metal is good though
https://youtu.be/0350SogJcOM

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:49:38 No.3697109 Report

Quoted By: >>3697118

To me it always sounded like something I'd hear on a commercial, very "standard" and "average".

But I dunno, I quite like it. It's definitely better than Spanish

t. slav living in Spain

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:50:00 No.3697110 Report

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>>3697083
Tom Araya was born on Valparaiso.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv--bGnKTiY

I like metallica, that's just how it sounds to us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:50:14 No.3697111 Report

Quoted By: >>3697121 >>3697126

>>3697101
Its not related to other European languages so it can sound strange.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:52:47 No.3697112 Report

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>>3697106
I don't when I'm home. Nor in the states. Only when travelling to a nation that doesn't speak English.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:54:44 No.3697113 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697083
Chilean metal is badass. Wrathprayer, for example.
>>3697042
It sounds like a flow of nonsense, same to french. German or spanish are far more legible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:55:29 No.3697114 Report

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>>3697069
Maybe it's because of the Simpsons but German always makes me think of a fat kid eating chocolate.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:56:45 No.3697115 Report

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>>3697095
Exactly, English to a non English speaker just sounds like frisian but with more r's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6od3KMV9w8

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:56:46 No.3697116 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697043
You have to go back, chink.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:57:28 No.3697117 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697090
Why would someone do this? I saw some videos with Trey Gowdy and I like how that southern accent sounds.
I don’t try to hide my accent. And that is taking in account the way we draw the "r" here in my state, which is a rural area.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 21:59:22 No.3697118 Report

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>>3697109
American commercials sound like parodies to me. The sensationalism is simply ridiculous. Other than that the American sounds just normal but it's sometimes too fast and slurred.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:00:12 No.3697119 Report

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>>3697082
Please point me to the Hungarian Shakespeare. Oh wait, you don't have one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:00:17 No.3697120 Report

Quoted By: >>3697124 >>3697125

>>3697042
To a Russian, english is like making noises while trying to get to stuck peanut butter in your mouth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:01:01 No.3697121 Report

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>>3697111
I really like how finnish language sound, even if it's not similar to any other European language.

Moi! ;-)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:01:18 No.3697122 Report

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>>3697090
You learn how to not use it because people assume you're retarded. Same with the Cajun accent. If you sound like your white culture is diverse from the federally accepted one, fuck you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:02:25 No.3697123 Report

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very meh in general, I much much prefer German, regardless of the shitty pronunciation in the north

among the various accents, Scottish sounds the best to me, at least it doesn't have the gay ass standard english /r/

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:03:11 No.3697124 Report

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>>3697120
I remember watching Fox Kids and Cartoon network when I was a wee lad. I didn't understand English back then so it always sounded like squeaky noises.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:03:19 No.3697125 Report

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>>3697120
that's funny to me because I speak English and always thought french people sound like they have peanut butter mouth

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:04:28 No.3697126 Report

Quoted By:

>>3697101
>>3697111
Its sounds like a combo of Swedish, Arabic and maybe Italian to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:HkyTEYwv Thu 11 Jan 2018 22:56:05 No.3697569 Report

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Depends on the accent. Brits sound gay until the start yelling. Americans sound badass usualy.

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Anonymous ID:Zb93dW32 Thu 11 Jan 2018 23:09:16 No.3697765 Report

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>>3697102
no they most certainly are not

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