ArishMell · 70-79, M
@ninalanyon Intriguing question! There probably are, though like that and Glossy's example, likely only as word-puzzles.
It led me to think of a more common aspect of at least the English language: letter-doubling, starting with those six:
E, O, R, T, also B, C, D, F, N, M, P, S.
I think aardvark and vacuum are the only examples of twinned 'A' and 'U' - and the former is from the animal's own country.
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Welsh of course uses 'DD' (pron. TH), 'FF' (spoken as the English single 'F', given a 'V' sound in Welsh) and 'LL' (pron. something like THL - very hard to represent fairly in a text-message. So twins acting as single consonants.
Not always easy for non-Welsh speakers, especially in combinations as in Rheilffordd Ffestiniog (Ffestiniog Railway), Ystradfellte (a village near Merthyr Tydfil) or Ogof Ffynnon Ddu which I gather is the 'Cave of the Black Spring', also in S. Wales.
Whether Welsh has an equivalent to Tumbleweed's and Glossy's canine and bibulous English examples, I have no idea, but would it treat dd, ff and ll as being as different from d, f and l, as say, ø is from o in Norwegian?
It led me to think of a more common aspect of at least the English language: letter-doubling, starting with those six:
E, O, R, T, also B, C, D, F, N, M, P, S.
I think aardvark and vacuum are the only examples of twinned 'A' and 'U' - and the former is from the animal's own country.
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Welsh of course uses 'DD' (pron. TH), 'FF' (spoken as the English single 'F', given a 'V' sound in Welsh) and 'LL' (pron. something like THL - very hard to represent fairly in a text-message. So twins acting as single consonants.
Not always easy for non-Welsh speakers, especially in combinations as in Rheilffordd Ffestiniog (Ffestiniog Railway), Ystradfellte (a village near Merthyr Tydfil) or Ogof Ffynnon Ddu which I gather is the 'Cave of the Black Spring', also in S. Wales.
Whether Welsh has an equivalent to Tumbleweed's and Glossy's canine and bibulous English examples, I have no idea, but would it treat dd, ff and ll as being as different from d, f and l, as say, ø is from o in Norwegian?
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@ArishMell One of my Norwegian colleagues used to complain that English had so many diphthongs making it difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@ninalanyon Perhaps what is harder is remembering how to pronounce similar combinations in different words:
Climbing the tree, I thought the bough very rough.
Though at least English does not give almost every noun a gender even if abstract, as in French (which also has much more complicated verb forms than in English).
Climbing the tree, I thought the bough very rough.
Though at least English does not give almost every noun a gender even if abstract, as in French (which also has much more complicated verb forms than in English).
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Glossy Perhaps not suitable for use in primary school :-)
Not only shorter bu also only four repeated letters versus six for the original.
Not only shorter bu also only four repeated letters versus six for the original.
rinkydinkydoink · M
Tumbleweed · F
@rinkydinkydoink Hmmm... I've never heard that one
rinkydinkydoink · M
@Tumbleweed
If you type the way we should that phrase is really easy to type quickly. If you use a laptop, try it out using both hands of course...
If you type the way we should that phrase is really easy to type quickly. If you use a laptop, try it out using both hands of course...
Tumbleweed · F
@rinkydinkydoink Thank you! I'll have to try that
SomeMichGuy · M
Tumbleweed · F
@SomeMichGuy I knew it didn't sound right but I couldn't figure out how I had it wrong. Thank you! 🙂
SomeMichGuy · M
@Tumbleweed I'm not sure that a search for "typing" would help, since the shift to "keyboarding"...which sounds like a term for playing a keyboard.
Tumbleweed · F
@anglais Could be. Makes sense, I nevr thought about that...
