Voiceless screaming was interestingly represented through music notation by Alfred Schnittke: "silence fortissimo".
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Fortissimo
//fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ//
Synonyms for "fortissimo" (91 found)
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8 translations across 8 languages.
French
1 entries- fortissimo adv (very loud)
Hebrew
1 entries- פוֹרְטִיסִימוֹ adv (very loud)
Indonesian
1 entries- fortissimo adv (very loud)
Italian
1 entries- fortissimo adv (very loud)
Japanese
1 entries- フォルティッシモ adv (very loud)
Portuguese
1 entries- fortíssimo adv (very loud)
Russian
1 entries- форти́ссимо adv (very loud)
Spanish
1 entries- fortísimo adv (very loud)
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(abbreviation) ff
Source: wiktionary
He claims he was doing no more than repeating the standard nationalist account. So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal critique which had resounded, often fortissimo, in British debate when Indian nationalism was still a half-formed dream.
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