I was thinking about this earlier, how many languages have a stereotype of how they sound, and people come up with really creative ways of describing them. For instance, the first time I heard dutch I knew german, so my reaction was to describe it as “a drunk german trying to communicate”, and I’ve heard catalan described as “a french woman having a child with an italian man and forgetting about him in Spain”. Portuguese is often described as “iberian russian”. Some languages like Danish, Polish and Welsh are notoriously the targets of such jests, in the latter two’s case, keyboards often being involved in the joke.
My own language, Basque, was once described by the Romans as “the sound of barking dogs”, and many people say it’s “like japanese, but pronounced by a spaniard”.
What are the funniest ways you’ve heard your language (or any other, for that matter) be described? I don’t intend this question to cause any discord, it’s all in good fun!