mirrorbird (02:40:53)
that's how you do a double consonant in finnish.

mirrorbird (02:40:42)
people should be shown that video of Bjork opening up her TV set and saying it looks like a "lit-tel cit-ty" inside

mirrorbird (02:40:25)
the textbook also made it stupidly complicated.

mirrorbird (02:40:14)
of course -- you just pause before you say it. easy

Agemixer (02:40:05)
gairoumeiniäk?

mirrorbird (02:40:05)
i thought "i have studied phonology, how do you hold a /t/, it's a plosive sound"

mirrorbird (02:39:47)
because we do that to shorten a vowel ("little" if it were spelled "litle" might sound like "light-le")

mirrorbird (02:39:32)
coming from english: if someone says "this is a long t" you will look at them like they are a (gyro) maniac

Agemixer (02:39:11)
mir, exactly

Agemixer (02:38:54)
i have aaid, if you spell twosize vocale, spell it as 3 time counts long, then it is most possibly all correct

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