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One of you says she can perceive both p's in the word "happen". I have to ask - any of you hear doubled consonants like that? (ENGLISH ONLY)

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Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
3 (42.9%)

Sometimes
1 (14.3%)

Not Sure
1 (14.3%)

Other
2 (28.6%)

So, now, I'm thinking of The Cruel Sister. Which sort of version do you like best?

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The type where the dead girl is turned into some sort of magical, sister-detecting instrument
0 (0.0%)

The type where they figure out whodunnit through common sense
1 (20.0%)

The type where the cruel sister gets away
0 (0.0%)

Other
0 (0.0%)

Wait - who the heck turns dead girls into musical instruments? AND WHY?
4 (80.0%)

Seriously, though, songs with sad lyrics should have

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Sad melodies
2 (28.6%)

Happy melodies - gotta love that dissonance!
0 (0.0%)

Meh, it doesn't matter
5 (71.4%)

What number am I thinking of?

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Mean: 6.33 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.60

1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (16.7%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (16.7%)
7		3 (50.0%)
8		1 (16.7%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[steorra]

In the vast majority of cases, I don't hear double consonants in English (for instance, I don't hear them in 'happen').

However, I do hear them in 'thirteen' and 'fourteen' (at least the way I pronounce them), even though they're not spelt like they're there.

[mc776]

Requesting fourth option, "Either is awesome".

[rho]

Doubled consonants are the bane of my existence. I would guess that about 80-90% of spelling mistakes that I make are either leaving out a doubled consonant or inserting one where it doesn't belong in an effort to over-compensate.

[pne]

I don't hear a double consonant nor a geminated or long one - but when I pronounce "happen" slowly and carefully it feels to me that the first syllable ends with lips closed (like an unreleased [p]) + simultaneous glottal stop, and the second one starts with the plosive release, so the [p] kind of belongs to both syllables at once.

But that's probably an artefact of slow speech; at normal speeds, I think the first syllable simply ends in a vowel.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I'm actually vaguely tempted to do a voicepost now that I have a prepaid cell phone with a lot of minutes just so I can better explain.

It may be worth noting that I almost certainly have what is best described as a "geek accent". My pronunciation tends to be more influenced by spelling than is typical and I am much more prone to pronounce words in their entirety than to just leave off bits of them. There are certain special exceptions, such as the word "drawer", because my region doesn't pronounce all of it. And other words I changed my pronunciation of when I moved, like "ricotta" since going around saying rigutta isn't clear to everyone outside my home area. And I don't say the b in subtle or hmm there is some word that British people pronounce it more like it's spelled but we don't that isn't herb which I also don't say the h in but it's like that and yeah, I do the American thing because I am American. But still, my speech is more text-affected than most.