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Gorilla Radio posted:Ok, so it's to balance out the vowel? Or is just a strange spelling rule? Double consonants are generally an indicator of vowel length, i.e. the preceding vowel is shorter and often accompanied by a pre-aspirated stop. Thus: maki (spouse) is pronounced ma:ki, with a long vowel, whereas makki (horse's mane) is pronounced mahki, the h representing the pre-aspirated stop. The Wikipedia page on Icelandic orthography probably explains this better than I do under "Function of symbols." Note also that i and í are considered different letters, so the difference between þinn and þín is not only vowel length but also vowel sounds (i as the i in mist, í as the ee in meet). I hope this makes sense, I'm obviously not a linguist.
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Gorilla Radio posted:Awhile ago, but thanks. Words ending in -in and -inn sound very similar in most instances, at least to my ear. In my experience many foreign speakers have a tendency to make the i-sound too long and/or the n-sound too soft when they pronounce words ending in -inn, so I suppose that's something to watch out for. As for the double b, I suppose it can sound like that when said slowly. It's still essentially a stop, but I don't think there's any problem with treating it as þyb-bin in your mind as long as it gets you where you're going, so to speak. So I'd say that works for words with a double b, but I don't think you can apply it to any other double consonant, I'm trying it out in my head right now and the results are... weird.
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