08-08-2024, 12:11 PM
Hi tavie, I find all Line Patterns fascinating, so it was lovely to hear your talk. There's clearly a problem with line start and line end words which goes very deep.
The Vertical Impact Behaviour is definitively new. I've never seen nor heard anybody discuss this before. I can't think of a linguistic reason, nor even any good reason. It seems to be a purely(?) stylistic choice. But I'm not sure a) why that would be a thing, and b) how the text allows it. I hope to hear more about it if there's anything else you think could be researched on the same topic.
Can we have a table of the scribes and the vertical patterns they like and dislike? Just all the information in a single glance. It would seem---at least I think---that all the alternating pairs are in a single group of glyphs. This group agrees with what Marco and I called the "Weak" group, and which Guy identified as vowels. This at least allows for some follow-up theories as to what might be happening, or starts to put a boundary round the phenomenon.
The Vertical Impact Behaviour is definitively new. I've never seen nor heard anybody discuss this before. I can't think of a linguistic reason, nor even any good reason. It seems to be a purely(?) stylistic choice. But I'm not sure a) why that would be a thing, and b) how the text allows it. I hope to hear more about it if there's anything else you think could be researched on the same topic.
Can we have a table of the scribes and the vertical patterns they like and dislike? Just all the information in a single glance. It would seem---at least I think---that all the alternating pairs are in a single group of glyphs. This group agrees with what Marco and I called the "Weak" group, and which Guy identified as vowels. This at least allows for some follow-up theories as to what might be happening, or starts to put a boundary round the phenomenon.
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