01-07-2018, 09:43 PM
(01-07-2018, 09:30 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How common would it have been in this type of script to mix abbreviations with Litterae Oblongatae? Doesn't it lead to confusion?
Good question. It was very very common to mix them.
Since they knew the abbreviations so well, as well as we know our alphabet, and since they are expanded based on context (the words and letters around them), it probably didn't lead to too much confusion. I suppose it might occasionally, if it were heavily abbreviated, but most heavily abbreviated text didn't use as many litterae elongatae.