Re: What is gemination? What are geminates?

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>Korean, in Roman transcription, has pp, tt et al. in initial position (as
>well as medial), but the pronunciation isn't clear to me.

That represents a glottalised consonant (constricted throat?) in Korean I
think.

Teach yourself books sometimes refer to it as double strength, maybe hence
the transcription.

Note that I'm definitely not a Korean expert, however.

-Imperative