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[boinsie]

I was taught to do it for words like 女, because without the apostrophe you can't be sure whether the original was おんな or おっな.

[erilaz]

I wasn't aware that っ is ever used before なにぬねの.

And it seems I'm not the only one: https://hinative.com/ja/questions/71083

The hits I get for such a combination appear to be limited to non-standard and slangy usages, such as こんっっっなに気持ちいいお手入れある！？

[Zunu]

Tuttle concurs it's just "onna."

Also, for native words chiisai tsu is never used before voiced consonants. There's tatta but no tadda, but there is beddo because it's non-native. Onna being a native word would not be written with the sokuon, but conceivably as a hypothetical loan word I suppose.

[erilaz]

I actually posted an edit where I contrasted [nn] and [mm] with the other geminate consonants in Japanese, pointing out that some scholars regard the geminate nasals as moraic nasal archiphoneme /N/ + /n/ and /N/ + /m/, but the other geminates as archiphoneme /Q/ + /C/, where C normally = any consonant, but in native Japanese words only voiceless obstruents are geminated in this way. What I wrote was was getting too complicated, more about (theoretical) phonemic analysis and not so much about actual orthographic practice, so I just deleted it.

[Celedam]

I don’t like Tim Cook’s Apple.

I loath Tim Cook.

Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri are now being sued for securities fraud, for lying about poor iPhone sales in order to artificially sustain Apple's stock price.

That seems right.

In other news, Intel just bailed out of the 5G modem business. Between that and the settlement of Qualcomm's suit against Apple, the next generation of iPhones might be screwed.

[rikkikow]

SHE’S GONE?!

[TotallyUncool]

Ducklessness!

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Oh no.

[boinsie]

Can you put your your own kiddie pool!?

[rikkikow]

Can you put your your own kiddie pool!?

LONESOME DUCK’S RETURN?
I saw a duck today at the post office!

"(They Long To Be) Close To You"
“Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me,
They long to be
Close to you.”