27-03-2026, 07:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-03-2026, 07:06 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(27-03-2026, 01:53 PM)Stefan Wirtz_2 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Easy test: where are the masses of doubled consonants in a lot of words, well known from every epoque and version of German?
A s you may have noticed, I don't think it is Bavarian. But the above argument is not good.
The "double consonants" of German and Italian are just a spelling convention, to indicate sounds that are not "double consonants" at all. There is only one "t" sound in Italian "note" (as in musical notes) and in "notte" (night). The difference is that there is a short stop before that "t" in the second case.
Writing the consonant twice seems natural to us only because we are used to that convention since grammar school. But it is an arbitrary convention, and a rather illogical one.
A more logical spelling for the second word would be "no•te" or "nohte" or something like that. If Voynichese were Bavarian, the Author could have chosen a spelling like these two for the "double consonants".
All the best, --stolfi


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