1435: Mnemonics pt 2: Lyrics Nov 15, 2018

Ever wonder why it can be so easy to memorize favorite song lyrics compared to straight speech? Some of this is probably from the frequency with which people listen to music, but as mentioned yesterday, abbreviations as mnemonics are not simply more to remember and can be helpful. Like with initialisms, it is easier to remember something in a pattern in part because it is easier to see when something is missing from the pattern. This is true of stories as well. Stories today only rhyme usually when they are written for children, but historically epic poems were dominant because oral histories were best, and very often, conveyed lyrically to help with memory, as a way to both break up text into small units and to create a metrical and or musical pattern. In school these methods may also be employed to differentiate important speech from other forms of talking.

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