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if we were given a challenge ...
To give a pair of fictional siblings, brother and sister, "real world" ugly names, mine would be Sloane and Seth. Both have the most unpleasant sounds of any names that are getting common usage right now. Seth sounds like gagging or trying to spit something out, and Sloane just sounds slimy and self-satisfied.Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
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I can't relate to you about Seth at all. None of the gagging or spitting motions my mouth and throat and tongue make are involved in any of the mouth motions of Seth. But, Sloane sounds like whatever Seth is trying to gag or spit up, sliding out like a slug
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More like taking a mouthful of something very hot (temperature hot) and sticky so it's clinging to your tongue and the roof of your mouth like napalm and you're trying to get it off by spitting but with a lot of air behind it and rubbing your tongue out between your front teeth and lips.Sloane makes me think of someone who should have been on Dynasty; huge shoulder pads, million-dollar hair, dagger fingernails, veins full of liquid nitrogen.
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Gotcha. Hot and spitty.
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