Curve-Line System - Bluetoes edition

[pfeaster]

Here are some of the main points as I understand them (I am ignoring gallows and ‘q’ and I may be misunderstanding something):

This looks like an accurate summary to me, although I haven't revisited many of these ideas for the past four and a half years, so I can't guarantee that I still agree with myself about all details!

One revision I've had in mind is to consider word-final [o] a variant of [b], since the flourish on [n] has a similar range of variation, usually extending away upward as with [b], but sometimes closing itself into a circle as with [o].  If we treat the flourish on [n] as a separable element added to a minim, then applying the same flourish to a curvelet [e] would seem to produce either [o] or [b] depending on its specific form.  In terms of word morphology, too, it looks as though tokens of [b] could be plausibly replaced by [o], or alternatively by [n] if preceding curvelets are also changed into minims.

Another idea I've since been toying with is to treat the "macron" or "bar" as a flourish that differs from the other flourish types in that it usually connects two turns rather than closing a single turn.  It looks like the first of the two turns can be [e], [ai], [oi], [aii], [oii], etc., while the second turn almost always begins with [ee].  If a gallows can also modify a following turn, e.g., as [kee], then a "benched gallows" could perhaps be explained as a case in which a preceding turn is being linked forward to a turn that also happens to be modified by a gallows -- for example, linking [e] forward to [kee] would produce [cKhe].  The "bar" and the gallows might need to occupy the same space for purely practical reasons.

In a word, curvlets (e-sequences) typically precede minims (i-sequences). But later in the post there is a careful argument proposing that word spaces convey very little information, so the concept of precedence within words becomes redundant.

I wouldn't say precedence necessarily becomes redundant according to that argument -- even if spacing doesn't convey essential information, it might still reflect a logical structure, as if we were to write "po ta to" broken into CV syllables instead of "potato."