RE: Evolution - was VMs: Inks and retouching

["Lukas Palatinus" <palat@xxxxxx>]

Elmar writes:
> I don't think it's "necesary", but "usual".
> 
> At least in the indogerman languages, double letters are always 
fairly
> common, at least significantly more common than in the VM.

I don't agree. Maybe in Germanic and Roman languages, but definitely 
not in Slavonic languages. There (or at least in Czech and Slovak I 
am perfectly familiar with) the double letters are quite rare, 
limited mainly to combinations of a prefix ending with some consonant 
and a root beginning with the same consonant. In Persian (I know, a 
bit exotic, but still an indogerman/indoeuropean language) double 
letters also occur rather rarely.

Regards

Lukas

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