Ink/pen dynamics and the rhythms of writing

[hiki33]

Is it possible that this is a bizarre consequence of the presumably imperfect way the VM scribe(s) cut their quills, which caused ink to flow differently depending on the type of stroke?

I think it's the speed. This happens a lot on y. Some final o and a in transliterations are actually y with a faint tail.

For example, it was difficult to recognize the y here on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. before the new multispectral processed images:



P.S. It also happens a lot on ch when the horizontal line is almost invisible.

This would also have implications on the theory that differences in length or orientation of the tail have different meaning. Because a) it's hard to control the shape of the tail when writing with so much momentum and b) if the scribe wrote many tails so fast they're barely visible this implies that he didn't care much about their legibility, just "it has a tail".