31-07-2017, 08:55 AM
Pardon me for departing from EVA, but there are some reasons why I prefer a different system. It's similar, and not difficult to adapt to and I use it for a number of reasons.
I prefer using "x" rather than "l" (ell) for EVA-l because the VMS glyph is not an ascender and writing it with x preserves the upper-lower-case balance and makes it easier to distinguish from the number 1 (especially in certain fonts). I also prefer using "c" for the glyph that looks like "c" and not using "e". I use "g" to represent EVA-y. I would prefer to use the number 9, because that's what the glyph is based on, but it's hard to write it with a descender (to subscript it), so I use "g". I go back and forth between using d or 8 for EVA-d. I'm comfortable with either one. I think 8 looks more like the actual VMS glyph.
So, I write EVA-lkeedy lkeedy as xkccdg or as xkcc8g. (Bummer, I have to fix everything, I didn't realize the EVA capital letters were benched.)
Now, to the subject of this thread, which is Vwords with interesting characteristics... let's look at lkeedy...
lkeedy doesn't appear on the first 75 folios. It begins on f76r, which is a dense-text page with column text, after some of the green-pool pages. It's buried unobtrusively in the first big chunk of text and the second-to-last.
Then there's a jump. It passes over the small-plant pages and shows up on the first page of dense starred text, about halfway down at the end of the line, in company with plant and plant-pool vords. From then on it shows up once on most of the first-half of the starred-text pages, usually in the company of plant vords or plant/pool vords... until you get to the 11th starred-text page and then the neighbors are a little more varied.. By "neighbors" I am referring to vords that come directly before and after (usually three or four of them in total).
***On 108v, starred-text, the pattern of one-instance per folio changes to multiple instances per folio:
It breaks this pattern halfway through the starred-text pages and suddenly shows up not just multiple times per folio, but multiple times per paragraph and starts keeping company with vords that are more varied.
What changed?
I prefer using "x" rather than "l" (ell) for EVA-l because the VMS glyph is not an ascender and writing it with x preserves the upper-lower-case balance and makes it easier to distinguish from the number 1 (especially in certain fonts). I also prefer using "c" for the glyph that looks like "c" and not using "e". I use "g" to represent EVA-y. I would prefer to use the number 9, because that's what the glyph is based on, but it's hard to write it with a descender (to subscript it), so I use "g". I go back and forth between using d or 8 for EVA-d. I'm comfortable with either one. I think 8 looks more like the actual VMS glyph.
So, I write EVA-lkeedy lkeedy as xkccdg or as xkcc8g. (Bummer, I have to fix everything, I didn't realize the EVA capital letters were benched.)
Now, to the subject of this thread, which is Vwords with interesting characteristics... let's look at lkeedy...
lkeedy doesn't appear on the first 75 folios. It begins on f76r, which is a dense-text page with column text, after some of the green-pool pages. It's buried unobtrusively in the first big chunk of text and the second-to-last.
- In the first instance, its neighbors are common general-purpose words (those that appear frequently in all sections, or almost all sections) and one word that is common to the plant and pool pages. This is not common, however. It's one of the few places where it keeps company with general-purpose vords.
- In the second instance, all its neighbors are plant/pool vords. In other words, even though these two instances are on the same folio, they are wedged between neighbors that function differently.
- It's buried in the fourth paragraph and has entirely different neighbors this time, a couple of words that are almost exclusive to pool pages.
- It's in the last paragraph at the end of a line, following several plant/pool vords.
- It's buried in the second paragraph in company with pool vords and plant/pool vords.
Then there's a jump. It passes over the small-plant pages and shows up on the first page of dense starred text, about halfway down at the end of the line, in company with plant and plant-pool vords. From then on it shows up once on most of the first-half of the starred-text pages, usually in the company of plant vords or plant/pool vords... until you get to the 11th starred-text page and then the neighbors are a little more varied.. By "neighbors" I am referring to vords that come directly before and after (usually three or four of them in total).
***On 108v, starred-text, the pattern of one-instance per folio changes to multiple instances per folio:
- On 108v, it shows up three times in the first short paragraph, and twice in the second, longer paragraph, still in the company of plant/pool vords.
Subsequently, there are numerous instances and the neighboring vords are unusually varied. Something has changed. Near the end, it reverts back to one instance per page.
It breaks this pattern halfway through the starred-text pages and suddenly shows up not just multiple times per folio, but multiple times per paragraph and starts keeping company with vords that are more varied.
What changed?
- Is there a change of subject matter halfway through the starred-text pages?
- Or is it possible that whatever the vord lkeedysignifies is dealt with in more detail on the pages where it becomes more frequent?
- Or did the system for laying down the VMS text suddenly change halfway through the starred-text pages?
- If it has any linguistic significance, what kind of word that is not a general-purpose word would enjoy the company of plant/pool and pool vords and mostly avoid being next to others?