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It's not the number of syllables, it's the particular flow of those syllables and the number of full stops. I'm sure there's a linguistic term for what I mean.
by burkaman 8y ago
It's not the number of syllables, it's the particular flow of those syllables and the number of full stops. I'm sure there's a linguistic term for what I mean. Consider "I'll just Googlify it" or "I'll just Dodogo it", which both sound better than "I'll just DuckDuckGo it".
- pingiun 8y agoYou could also say, "I'll just duckduck it"
- timerol 8y agoThe linguistic term is actually just a "stop", though you can use occlusive or plosive to sound fancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_consonant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_consonant
- pilsetnieks 8y agoPerhaps also a case of the Bouba/kiki effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect) - people assuming the nature of words because of how they sound.
- jerf 8y agoEuphony: http://literary-devices.com/content/euphony http://literary-devices.com/content/euphony
- nailer 8y agoJust duck it.