TLDR: The difficult task of reproducing the pitch accents in Greek might be a step too far for most people, but consider the following line from Homer’s Iliad

TLDR: The difficult task of reproducing the pitch accents in Greek might be a step too far for most people, but consider the following line from Homer’s Iliad 1.345: ὣς φάτο Πάτροκλος δὲ φίλῳ ἐπεπείθεθ᾽ ἑταίρῳ It develops beautifully from sauntering labial alliteration (of p and ph sounds) to rapid-fire dental consonance (of th and t sounds), but if we pronounce Φ and Θ as fricatives here: https://antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Iliad-1-345-with-Fricatives.wav https://antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Iliad... rather than aspirated stops: https://antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Iliad-1-345-with-Stops.wav https://antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Iliad... then the distinction between Φ and Π and between Θ and Τ becomes so great that the sound effect is lost completely. Homer, for one, would have cared.