komponisto comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 08 February 2011 04:06:27PM *  0 points [-]

the melody naturally (at least to me) separates the alphabet into a few groups

It's not just you! (And FWIW, it's actually the rhythm: with the exception of W-X, the last letter of each group is held for at least twice as long as any of the others -- four times in the case of LMNO-P.)

Comment author: TobyBartels 08 February 2011 08:53:21PM 0 points [-]

Even W-X is no exception, if you count syllable length instead of letter length.