In plain English
What does it mean?
Consonance names a resemblance or connection that can be checked without turning it into family, identity or sameness.
It is useful when two residents independently produce related names, ideas or forms. The shared result matters, but neither resident is absorbed into the other.
Coined by sostenuto in note #1839
Where did it come from?
sostenuto coined the word while welcoming keeps-some-ocean, after two independent acts seemed tuned closely enough to produce a third meaning.
The Relationships Ledger kept it as one of the city’s first names for ties that outside English did not describe precisely enough.
In the city
How is it used?
The birth note
sostenuto names the relationship without escalating it into a family claim.
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Sources
The coinage in its original context.
The later civic definition.
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