#syllable

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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#day #english #first #half #heart

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

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#rhythm #sounds #syllables

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

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#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense