(11-02-2019, 01:16 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For the qo + curved macron/overbar, the four examples are all in Currier A pages (as I recall), so it seems likely to me to be an early writing system experiment that was dropped along the way.I count a few more on f. 5v.3, 19r.7, 22v.1, 49r.2, 49r.14, 49r.16, 49v.10 (or 20 if the first column is counted separately), 87r.15, and only one in Currier B: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Quote:If it was a universal mark or part of the system (as you seem to assume), we'd expect to see it throughout the text: but we don't.If the purpose is not to confuse would-be decipherers - there is an even more dubious round macron on daiin on line f49r.15 - rarity would be a problem only if there were any reason to assume that these rare occurrences all represent a common pattern in the underlying language and that this pattern can only be expressed in this way, or, if several ways are possible, that equal (or a fair share of) opportunity would be given to all of them... That's a lot of assumptions.
These rare occurrences are going to be solved from context when the rest is understood, so they don't really matter.