I usually start with the obvious words, that make no sense but are nice to pronounce (foo, bar, baz, boing, ...). Sometimes I use a little austrian slang (haeusl, schas) or nonsense words derived from slang, german first names (karl, heinz, bertl). There are even some non-words that have become pretty common among people at Vienna University for Technology (nuppel, plok...)

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