Re: Italians Qs (Stolen; was Re: You have a word for it?)

Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:

> In it, it makes reference to a particular characters' use of 'superlatives
> and double consonants'. Does anyone know what the double consonants could
> mean?
I suppose it means that he speaks as (or like) a Southerner; Southern
dialects have a lot of geminated consonants, especially initially.

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that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
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