Everything sticks, even the way of listening and understanding. For humans, consonants usually provide more information than vowels. It is something that is repeated in many languages: when a phrase is stripped down to its bones, they are more recognizable if they have a predominance of consonants. That is why Spanish has 23 consonants and five vowels, a proportion that is maintained in almost all languages. That's why when people want to save characters in a message, they eat the vowels. Because “mchs bss” is much better understood than “uo eo”. Our brain fills in the gaps better.
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