The daiin

[-JKP-]

 I often quickly forget what was discussed in the forum, and, the more surprising, I'm also in habit of forgetting the discussions in which I myself took most active part. So please excuse me if what I write below was discussed earlier, we'll merge the threads then.

Not only do I sometimes forget what has been discussed in the past (and even that I was involved in the discussion), but sometimes I forget to come back to a thread that I opened and realized I didn't have time to read.

I'll go into the thread... "Oops, that looks like a long one or one that might take some extra thought, I'll have to come back to it after work"... and then more messages pile up and I forget to return to read it. I can't even remember ever having seen this thread, other than maybe glancing at the first line.


Well, I guess you know how I feel about this subject since I blogged about it recently, although I wasn't looking at "daiin", I was looking at "ain" and "oin". I too think there's a possibility of filler, or maybe a "something-else pattern" based on the shape of a medieval filler pattern, but I am not completely sure because there are other possibilities.

I feel fairly strongly that "ain" should be analyzed without the "d" because there are many glyphs preceding the "ain" sequence. Get a grasp of "ain" first and then look at the letters in front, but not only the "d", the other ones too, so the pattern can be understood in context.