13 Feb
2023
13 Feb
'23
10:47 p.m.
I LIKE THIS!
I hereby nominate "jets and rubies" as the likeliest contender, far
outshining my own personal fallback, suns-and-moons.
And btw, I'm absolutely seeing "jets" in my mind as black shiny beads,
not flying machines.
On 2/13/23, Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers
<contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
jets/rubies might be the best solution several
reasons:
(1) no relation to gender roles,
(2) sound like gents and ladies, satisfying those who cognitively have
difficulty associating larks and robins with the corresponding roles.
(3) easier and faster to say. Jets, unlike larks, has no hard consonant.
Rubies has a hard consonant "b", but the sound of the "u" leaves
one's lips
and tongue positioned perfectly to utter the "b". (This is a benefit to new
callers, who often have difficulty prompting on time.)
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