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WoW: euphony

11/28/2016

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1984 by George Orwell
This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.
​In Newspeak, euphony outweighed every consideration other than exactitude of meaning.
1984
​George Orwell
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Jack then went among the Vagabonds and, speaking in a none too euphonious stew of zargon, French, and sign language, soon got the information he needed.
Quicksilver
​Neal Stephenson
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
A few minutes of gentle argument determined that Bergon dy Ibra-Chalion was no more euphonious than Bergon dy Chalion-Ibra, and that clause, too, was allowed to stand.
The Curse of Chalion
​Lois McMaster Bujold
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