Sentence examples similar to abrupt syllable from inspiring English sources
In English, "mom" might seem the closest fit for Camus's sentence, but there's still something off-putting and abrupt about the single-syllable word; the two-syllable maman has a touch of softness and warmth that is lost with "mom".
And so Dizzee created his own sound by exaggerating the eccentricities of his own voice: the typewriterly clatter of hard consonants, the flattened or distended vowels (in his rhymes, "right" rhymes with "bat," and the word "boy" might have two or three syllables), the gulped half-sentences and abrupt shifts in momentum.
Speakers of British English always seem to be on the lookout for the glottal stop: that abrupt silence that can replace the "t" in words like "right" or "taught" or between the syllables in an exclamation like "uh-oh!".
The two syllables rub against each other, the first one lilting gently, the second one pointed, abrupt.
Syllable by syllable, he traffics in fantasy.
