08-04-2019, 03:54 PM
I gave a name to the most common biglyphs a few years ago. There is a particularly important subgroup that is frequent and can also stand alone.
I call them Janus Pairs. Some examples include al, a, ol, or, and others. For simplicity, I'll keep gallows chars out of this example and simply represent them as || (one or two pipe symbols, more on gallows chars later).
Pretend a Janus Pair is represented by the glyph * (asterisk). Pretend (also for the sake of simplicity) that the 9 symbol is a null.
EVA-ch is represented as cc (two EVA-e). This is not merely for convenience. If you LOOK at how EVA-ch occurs and note its companions, you will see what it might be reasonable to consider it as cc, at least for the purposes of examining these important patterns. EVA-ch is FREQUENTLY followed by c, cc, etc., in much the same way as the minims follow the "a" shape.
Here are a couple of lines of VMS text:
|*||cc*l cccc ||ccc9 l*c*iii *c* *ccc*iii *cccc* 4*c9 *iii * *iii ccc* *||ccc9g l||9 ccc*r cccg||ccccg r*c* *c* *cc*ii ccc*9 ll* *iii cccg cccccg *ii **r ccccc**ii cccc9 ccccc*iii *occc*o*iii *
Compacting the Janus pairs into asterisks allows one to see the ccc and iii patterns more clearly. Notice also that EVA-r and EVA-l do not always function as part of the pairs (biglyphs), just as the 9 (EVA-y) seems to have its own role both within and without Janus pairs.
What's important to note is that either c-shapes or i-shapes (and occasionally both) occur in ALL the groups interspersed between Janus pairs for these two lines, and for the rest of the paragraph.
I call them Janus Pairs. Some examples include al, a, ol, or, and others. For simplicity, I'll keep gallows chars out of this example and simply represent them as || (one or two pipe symbols, more on gallows chars later).
Pretend a Janus Pair is represented by the glyph * (asterisk). Pretend (also for the sake of simplicity) that the 9 symbol is a null.
EVA-ch is represented as cc (two EVA-e). This is not merely for convenience. If you LOOK at how EVA-ch occurs and note its companions, you will see what it might be reasonable to consider it as cc, at least for the purposes of examining these important patterns. EVA-ch is FREQUENTLY followed by c, cc, etc., in much the same way as the minims follow the "a" shape.
Here are a couple of lines of VMS text:
|*||cc*l cccc ||ccc9 l*c*iii *c* *ccc*iii *cccc* 4*c9 *iii * *iii ccc* *||ccc9g l||9 ccc*r cccg||ccccg r*c* *c* *cc*ii ccc*9 ll* *iii cccg cccccg *ii **r ccccc**ii cccc9 ccccc*iii *occc*o*iii *
Compacting the Janus pairs into asterisks allows one to see the ccc and iii patterns more clearly. Notice also that EVA-r and EVA-l do not always function as part of the pairs (biglyphs), just as the 9 (EVA-y) seems to have its own role both within and without Janus pairs.
What's important to note is that either c-shapes or i-shapes (and occasionally both) occur in ALL the groups interspersed between Janus pairs for these two lines, and for the rest of the paragraph.