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#syllables

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#act #capacity #case #consciousness #familiarity

Syllables govern the world.


George Bernard Shaw


#syllables #world

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.


Vernon Duke


#meant #paris #really #required #rhythm

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#chance #construct #different #drawn #each

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#mother #mother tongue #syllables #those #tongue

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.


Jean Philippe Rameau


#rhythm #sounds #syllables

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.


William Safire


#fighting #known #light #political #previously

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


#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#being #between #certain #consonants #constructed

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#been #conditions #forgotten #heart #inner






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