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Originally Posted by seth
It's the best comparison for you because it meets your criteria
Mine aren't stupid if yours isn't. They are the same idea, there are common sense rules that your brain knows. Those rules would NEVER call someone who goes by Snitching Snit. Not once. Only those forced things come up in text battles. It doesn't matter how they "sound" to you, it matters that they don't make sense. The Bar/Barc and Snit/Snitch seem to you okay because they have single syllable sounds that end in multiple consonants so can be a few lengths.
So say, Cashius. Cash/Cas. Both end in consonants, Cas, shis or Cash, us could be taken by your standards and you could use Cas (Like CASSidy), yet no one has and no one would. They use Cash.
I actually don't think Barc makes sense really just because it's a word. It's Bar-cot-ic not Barc-ott-ic.
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Bar/Barc vs Snit/Snitch is the best comparison because it's doing the same thing - removing part of the sound but keeping it to the same syllable instead of adding extra syllables like you're doing with Dom/Domin, Alex/Alexan, Jess/Jessic.
Cas vs Cash is a better comparison but I'd still argue it's not the same. When you drop the h you change the pronunciation of the s. You can still hear bar in barc and snit in snitch, but you can't hear cas in cash.
You can dislike Barc for Barcotic as a matter of opinion but that's been firmly established as being OK, and that's the closest example we've seen to what we're arguing over here. It's fine if YOU hate Snit and can't imagine anyone calling him that but at least three people disagree with you. It IS a matter of opinion.