Character Classes

[ThomasCoon]

I've been working on something that may (or may not) be useful to this thread. There may be something odd involving [ch/sh] and [o/e] when they are around the gallows / Stolfi's "dealers". In some cases, it almost looks like [ch] and [sh] may substitute for each other, and [o] and [e] might variably appear once or twice, or not at all:


she--dyk-ain-qok
che--dyk-ain-qok
ch---dyk-ain
chee-dyk-ain
sho--dyk-ain
sho--dyk-aiin
cho--dyk-an

she-dyk-air
sh--dyk-air
che-dyk-air
ch--dyk-air

-che-dyk-ar
kche-dyk-ar
kch--dyk-ar
pch--dyk-ar

kee--dyk-ar
tee--dyk-ar

ch--dyok-ar
cho-dyok-ar
che-dyok-ar
she-dyok-ar
ch--dyok-aiin
cho-dyok-aiin

ke--dy-ch---dyk-al-sh
kch-dy-chee-dyk-al-ch


(the dashes are my invention; they do not represent spaces in the manuscript)

This actually happens all over the place, when similar strings are compared:

qo-ko--dyqotedy
qo-ke--dyqotedy
qo-kee-dyqotedy
qo-te--dyqotedy
qo-tee-dyqotedy

op-she-dyqotedy
op-she-dyqoteedy
op-ch--dyqotedy
op-che-dyqotedy
op-che-dyqotody