What are labels?

[Mark Knowles]

Not swapping, but building an association of one to another. Developing this further, imagine that the point is that an f68r1/r2 label  ceases (or, rather, might cease) to be a simple notion (be that noun or adjective, does not matter), and appears rather an "operator + notion" construct, like e.g. otol = o over tol. For example otol might be "with tol" or "related to tol", while qotol might be "without tol". There's a thread in the forum where I develop this in more detail, can't remember its name offhand. This would explain the high proportion of o-starting labels.

I guess you know that these labels can be found against a variety of different drawings. So a plant may have the same label as a star, naked woman, a pipe etc. So in that instance if a label and an operator is an evil spirit you would need to explain why that label applies to all those different drawings. Then if otor means o+tor then one needs, I think, to explain the degree of similarity in spelling of tol, kol, tor and how they can have distinct meanings with such similar spellings.

The proximity on a page of labels spelled almost identically I find very suspicious.