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since sammarinese is clearly an elision
Technically, in linguistics this is called assimilation (you can see it happening in Latin, where ad-similare became as-similare). It's opposite is dissimilation: e.g., L. arbor 'tree' to Spanish arbol. Both phenomena can happen to sounds in close proximity or sepearted by other sounds.
Elision is leaving out an initial or final sound. It happens in French, where some sounds that are silent at the ends of words are pronounced if the next word in the phrase/sentence begins with a vowel. Then there's Sanskrit's sandhi (pronounced almost like Sunday), where all kinds of changes happen to sounds at word boundaries.
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>Since sammarinese is clearly NOT an elision. Thanks for the corrective note on assimilation, jheem. Had I already known that, perhaps the phrase "resistance is futile" would not have leapt to my mind when reading your post. 
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Ah, yes, the Borg: one of the better alien species in the Star Trek universe. But how about those Unborg (with the 7-Up of Nine). "You will be dissimilated! Resistence is utile!"
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Treppenwitze was my gut feeling attempt at rendering a plural. Quick dictionary check seems to indicate it was correct. In nominative anyway.
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And for benefit of new members, one of the largest geological structures in the world are the Siberal Traps, where huge but successively smaller volcanic outflows
produced circular "steps" that can be seen by astronauts.
And remember "East Side, West Side...Me and Mamie O'Rourke
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"treppenwitze"= the snappy retorts that only come to you on stairs as you are leaving.
Thanks, Bill--I was wondering.
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, one of the largest geological structures in the world are the Siberal Traps, where huge but successively smaller volcanic outflows
produced circular "steps" that can be seen by astronauts.
trap rocks can be seen all over the world. 'the devil's stairway (in Ulster, Norther Ireland), the Palisades of NY/NJ, and so on..
and the steps are not circular, but hexagons, (they are realy giant crystal structures, and a very strong stable compound (that resist erosion) so often the 'stair case/steps/traps, remain long after other geological features have been eroded away.(a basalt compound.--where is stales when i need specific chemical compounds?)
but the rock fractures under pressure (so it can be pulverized, and made into gravel)
(trap was one of the word i contributed to the thread on words from the dutch --i suppose they got it from one of the german language groups, but it took hold here in NY (from the dutch))
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