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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

pounding

Hi,

Does it mean one sound, or several sounds in the context:

The noise was a staccato in her periphery, pounding, then nothing, pounding then nothing, like a hammer on a piece of steel. Like a blacksmith fashioning a horseshoe. Clink, clink, clink.

My question is does it goes like this: clink, clink, clink nothing clink clink clink nothing and so on or clink nothing clink nothing and so on?

Thanks
  

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It goes: clink, clink, clink, pause . It is, as stated, staccato (= marked by or composed of abrupt, disconnected parts or sounds), but pounding (an uncountable: there wasn't much pounding ) is repetitious anyway.

— Mister Micawber

  • It goes: clink, clink, clink, pause .
  • It is, as stated, staccato (= marked by or composed of abrupt, disconnected parts or sounds), but pounding (an uncountable: there wasn't much pounding ) is repetitious anyway.
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It goes: clink, clink, clink, pause. It is, as stated, staccato (= marked by or composed of abrupt, disconnected parts or sounds), but pounding (an uncountable: there wasn't much pounding) is repetitious anyway.
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Thank you very much
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Curious. I find it difficult to imagine "clinking" as "pounding". Coins vs heartbeats.

MrP
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I envisioned an anvil, MrP. Would that be 'clank, clank', then?
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I guess the pounding could be many kinds of sounds, depending on what pounds.
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Mister MicawberI envisioned an anvil, MrP. Would that be 'clank, clank', then?

I have a dim apprehension that I'm about to say something foolish here, but: "pound" always seems to suggest a deep thumping sound, and a sense of "pulverising"; whereas "clink" doesn't.

(Maybe if you were to hit a horseshoe on an anvil with a mallet, there'd be
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