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== Texting/conversation game == | == Texting/conversation game == | ||
Since [[beauty]] is about simplicity, brevity is key. Autists often bore with their overly detailed ramblings. | |||
=== Phonaesthetics === | === Phonaesthetics === | ||
Phonaesthetics is the study of beauty of sounds of words or parts of words.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonaesthetics</ref> | |||
Elegant, fancy words like ''luminescence'' are more attractive than words like ''guttural''. A study done in 1995 by David Crystal, determined what type of words sound attractive. | |||
* Words with three or more syllables (e.g., goss·a·mer and mel·o·dy) | * Words with three or more syllables (e.g., goss·a·mer and mel·o·dy) | ||