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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by burkaman on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:51AM (#18664349)
It's not the number of syllables, it's the particular flow of those syllables and the number of full stops. I'm sure there's a linguistic term for what I mean. Consider "I'll just Googlify it" or "I'll just Dodogo it", which both sound better than "I'll just DuckDuckGo it".
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by timerol on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:05AM (#18664474)
The linguistic term is actually just a "stop", though you can use occlusive or plosive to sound fancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_consonant
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by pilsetnieks on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:22AM (#18664616)
Perhaps also a case of the Bouba/kiki effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect) - people assuming the nature of words because of how they sound.
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by jerf on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:04AM (#18664996)
Euphony: http://literary-devices.com/content/euphony
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by pingiun on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:59AM (#18664424)
You could also say, "I'll just duckduck it"
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by nailer on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:14AM (#18665093)
Just duck it.
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