«الظش»
A rough or hard piece of ground.
This short word is cited among expressions whose sounds are difficult to combine smoothly. Discord is therefore not simply a consequence of a word having many letters.
Knowing what a word means does not remove its articulatory heaviness. Sound and meaning are separate considerations in judging the eloquence of an individual word.
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Fasāḥah: Foundations and the Three Defects of a Word
«الظش»
A rough or hard piece of ground.
This short word is cited among expressions whose sounds are difficult to combine smoothly. Discord is therefore not simply a consequence of a word having many letters.
Knowing what a word means does not remove its articulatory heaviness. Sound and meaning are separate considerations in judging the eloquence of an individual word.