Jiang says Dante can produce these different effects by intentionally controlling syllables and the balance of hard and soft consonants.
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Consonants
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"...are some hard syllables, and there's some, sorry, there's some hard consonants, and soft consonants, okay? This is all intentional on his part, okay?..."
"consonants between the creator and the observer or the experiencer"
"...they would take the word and make it into just one consonant. Okay? So this would become S. This would become M. And therefore,..."
"...guess what? We can actually just have the sound represent a consonant, okay? The simplest sound. And this would be an M, this would..."
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