But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.

(...) antes de entrar en batalla, nadie sabía quién es. Alguien podía pensarse cobarde y ser un valiente, y asimismo al revés (...)

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

Roman Jakobson

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