29-03-2026, 11:59 AM
(29-03-2026, 10:21 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, sure, in German standard spelling the "little break" before a consonant sound has always been conventionally encoded by doubling the consonant.
But, in case you haven't noticed, the VMS is not written in the German standard spelling.[..]
What?
There is no „little break“ before consonants in our language, we are not Italians.
Doubled consonants are shortening the previous vowel if necessary by context, they don‘t put breaks in. And this is only a bit different in medieval german texts, when there some geminis do not appear where we are used to it, making it a bit difficult to read that word in the first try. But nowhere are „breaks“ intended.
„Mine“ is something completely different than in „Minne“ in today‘s german, but you will find the (medieval) word „Minne“ written as „Mine“ in old texts.
Maybe you haven‘t noticed: I as native speaker refuse the idea that there is any German spelling in VMS from the very first second. It is not Latin, it is not German.
About Venetian: well, we could open this barrel again, but it will still be clear that there are „a few“ double consonants in written venetian — and quite more than the VMS ever will offer.
But that belongs not into this thread here.