Ready for Victor Robles
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It’s the double-R that makes it difficult. In the title Victor Robles, all the emphasis is front-loaded. Victor is spondaic and Robles is trochaic, which suggests three pressured syllables in a row adopted by that one final unstressed syllable: VIC-TOR RO-bles. It’s a shout adopted by a whisper, which doesn’t precisely roll off the tongue. But even when you cheat a bit of bit and switch the primary title right into a trochee — VIC-tor RO-bles, sing-songy like Mickey Mantle or Dr Pepper — you continue to can’t get it to circulate as a result of you might want to pause between these two Rs, lest the 2 names get pressed collectively into one breathless pileup of syllables: victorrobles. No matter what you attempt, that emphatic begin grinds to a halt.
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