In speech generally, consonants have higher frequencies than vowels, making conversations difficult to hear for some elderly people.

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On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables.

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The harsh, explosive consonants and the action-focused, verb-heavy monosyllables instantly immerse us in the hard, violent world of the goblins, who take pleasure in acts of cruelty.

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The whistled language replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound: two distinct whistles replace the five Spanish vowels, and there are four whistles for consonants.

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Some of the hard consonants will be replaced by softer ones (k's by g's, for example), while some o's will give way to eo and u's to eu.

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He speaks a highly fricative English (the consonants get stuck in the back of his throat) and long stretches of pseudo-Arabic (which is actually Hebrew most of the time).

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It, in turn, became a success only when the Greeks had the clever idea of devising vowels to fill in the gaps between the consonants that had until then been adequate for recording Semitic tongues.

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The children kept their eyes fixed on the psychiatrist, who adopted a maternal attitude, though not for long, since she soon noticed, as she later explained to Pereda, a malevolent intention in their gaze, a mischievous plan formulated, so she felt, in a language full of consonants, shrieks, and resentment.

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