Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:14:47 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > When a posting, or a thread, is far off topic of the relevant list or
> > newsgroup, one tries to wrench it back onto topic, with the notation
> > "Obligatory X."
>
> Thank you for explaining that. It's surely civil!
>
> >> I assume double consonants in Finnish are repeated, as in Italian?
> >
> > Sorry, I've never noticed a "repeated" consonant in Italian?
>
> I was referring to articulation, apparently carelessly. For instance,
> "Sotto", in which the t's are separately articulated, maybe with a pause
> in voicing between them. (Am I confused?)

There's no voicing, and there's no separate articulation; the closure is
held a bit longer than it would be in "soto." Or "risoluto."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...