Re: Evolution - was VMs: Inks and retouching

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:07, John Grove wrote:

> Now, although there are a couple of stand-alone
> 'i' endings without a formal end-stroke, I'm
> willing for now to consider that an 'i' does not
> exist by itself. 

I hate to say it :-) but one could imagine that
someone using a Cardan grille did not have the 
hole in the card properly aligned with the
underlying table, and only copied the -i
where it should have read -iin.

What does that mean:

1) We can speculate and come up with loads of 
   different explanations. Any single piece of
   speculation does not help to favour one theory
   over another. To a supporter of the Cardan grille
   hypothesis, the above must sound pretty 
   reasonable and could be used as supporting
   evidence.

2) When an observation doesn't seem to fit any
   standard behaviour, it is still possible that:
   - it's a mistake by the author
   - our model of the behaviour is not complete
   - it's not meant to fit the behaviour

Examples of that last bullet are left as an
exercise to the reader :-)

Cheers, Rene



		
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