Re: Quenya and other Tolkien's languages' <ss>

Yes, it's a geminate s. So the answer was short (unlike the s) and sweet (as
in "lisse"!)
Mike
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From: "Petr Mejzlík" <imploder@...>
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Quenya and other Tolkien's languages' <ss>


> Does <ss> in Quenya represent geminate /s/ or is it just another
> orthographic quirk to adjust the appearance to English spelling (like the
> diaeresis on e)? Or is it just that /s/ is often long in these languages
> since <ss> is very common? Being it just a way to write single /s/
> somewhere would be pretty confusing since these languages have consonant
> gemination (<nn> = /n:/, <mm> = /m:/ etc.).
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