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Storage is one thing, but execution is another.
Your storage device might be able to store the entire ceremonial spell, but it could just be that ceremonial spells have a long cast time because they have to be deployed in stages - you cannot go onto the next phase until the previous one has been sucesfully complete.
And, as symbols have power (like the sygils in the magic circles), words could also have power. It could be that when Fate names the various entities in Phalanx Shift, she is doing so so she can tap into their power. So the words of the incantation might have very real importance to the spell's execution, rather than being some arbitrary mnemonic trick..
After all, the show's name is Lyrical Nanoha - lyrics are words; might this hint that the words are an integral requirement of the Nanohaverse's magic system?
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