Re: VMs: Re: Q: Theories about "4o" at word beginning?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 08:06 20/12/2003 -0800, Rene wrote:
> In my opinon, word-initial qo- is a variant of
> word-initial o-.
> Just like word-initial sh- is a variant of
> word-initial ch-.
> Perhaps also word-initial da- is a variant of
> word-initial a-.

Have you tried to quantify these similarities more thoroughly? That is, 
have you compared the frequency of the glyphs following each, compared 
word-lengths of each group, compared them in different sections/hands/etc, 
compared them with the first word of each line excluded, compared them with 
the first line of each paragraph excluded, etc?

> What these variants are? We can only guess, but
> the fact that this 'happens' must somehow be
> part of the code/language.

Here's an idea: perhaps we could develop an "anomaly check-list", 
comprising suggestions for tests to try out in order to understand what 
causes the anomaly? This might help us move from <noticing what happens> 
(behavioural insight) to <modelling when / where / how it happens> 
(systematic model). Just a thought. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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