Is There a Geminate?

Linguist says there is strong evidence that with these minimal pairs, you know, about the syllable nuclei. He lists some examples, which are nice examples, except that you don't know historically where these came from. What this says to me is that potentially there were some long vowels and the long vowels became short and the short vowels dropped out in certain situations. That would produce exactly the minimal pairs you're seeing. This is explicitly a, a synchronic analysis. It's like, you can't take this information and say, oh, well, if that works like this in Ogami, then we can take all of these geminets and put them