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The tongue twister They are sentences or groups of sentences that are characterized by being difficult in their pronunciation, so their pronunciation in a row can be a challenge. For example: The cartoonist caricatured me.
The phonetic similarity between the words will lead to an obligatory interruption while speaking. Rhymes, cacophonies and long words are common in tongue twisters, even words that do not exist because they result from the transformation of a noun into a verb or an adjective.
In this way, tongue twisters have a playful nature and it is usual for them to be known by children, to the extent that by repeating them over and over again they acquire a certain skill in pronunciation and expand their vocabulary a little more.
It can serve you:
- Sayings
- Riddles
Examples of popular tongue twisters
- Paco keeps the few glasses that Pepe took out little by little.
- How sad you are, Tristan, after such a gloomy theatrical plot!
- How do you want me to love you, if the one I want him to not love me does not love me the way I want him to.
- A pruner pruned the vine and another pruner who passed by asked him: Pruner, you pruned the vine. What vine did you prune? Can you prune my vine or can your vine? I neither prune your vine, nor my vine, I prune my uncle Bartolo's vine.
- Pablito nailed a nail; What little nail did Pablito nail?
- In the square of Constantinople there was a corner, in the corner a house, in the house a balcony, in the balcony a stake, in the stake a parrot. The parrot is on the stake on the balcony of the house at the corner of the Constantinople Square.
- Three sad tigers swallowed wheat in three sad junk in a wheat field, in a wheat field three sad tigers swallowed wheat in three sad junk.
- The Otolaryngologist works in otolaryngology.
- If Samson doesn't season his sauce with salt, it comes out bland; Samson's sauce is bland if he seasones it without salt.
- The old crab was perplexed when he saw his old reflection in that mirror
- Love is madness that not even the priest cures, that if the priest cures it, it is the priest's madness.
- History is the successive narration of the events that happened successively in the succession of times.
- The ground is framed. Who will unframe it? The unboxer who unboxed it will be a good unboxer.
- From generation to generation, generations degenerate with greater degeneration.
- How sad you are, Tristan, after such a gloomy theatrical plot!
- Compadre, buy me a coconut. Compadre, coco I don't buy; because he who eats little coconut, buys little coconut: I eat little coconut, I buy little coconut.Compadre, buy me a coconut.
- Without intimidation with breath and talent I attempt to supply food and sustenance without hoarding.
- Erre con erre, guitar; erre con erre, look how fast the railway wheels roll.
- With you I enter a train with wheat, a train with wheat, with you a train.
- The wise shad came out. It came out on Saturday.
Fun Facts About Tongue Twisters
Certain tongue twisters are used by speech therapy techniques to improve the pronunciation of certain phonemes in children. They are sometimes used to exercise theater and singing groups, as their constant repetition acts as a warm-up for further work.
Tongue twisters have existed since ancient times and there are records of them in practically all known languages, so it can be thought that it is something inherent to human nature to play and dismember words.
Since ancient Greece, tongue twisters are associated with other kinds of games such as riddles, riddles and enigmas: with their great differences, in all four cases they are elements transmitted by oral means by which children must think and practice before finally solving it.
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