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[Mauro]

That spelling system is used for the convenience of those Italian speakers who do not speak Venetian and/or cannot be expected to learn a different spelling system just for it.  But if one were to design a Venetian spelling system from scratch, the "s" sound would be written with a single letter that would always be pronounced like simple s, even between vowels.

And, I would add, the [z] sound would just be represented by 'z'.

it is just not true to say that there is no „geminizing“ at all in North italian variants.

I did not say that! Again, other Italian dialects do have geminated consonants in the spoken language, and therefore their written versions have them too.



All the best, --jorge

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Notice he said 'North italian', and it is indeed true all northern Italy languages (northward of the La Spezia - Rimini line) do not have geminated consonants (while all southern languages do).