20-04-2025, 09:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-04-2025, 09:33 AM by dashstofsk.
Edit Reason: Lengthen, not shorten.
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This is good stuff. Essentially the observation is that repeating strokes appear very frequently in the words of the manuscript. For instance in the word daiin there are four consecutive i strokes. In cheey there are five consecutive e strokes. If you list all words in the ZL transliteration that are longer than 10 characters you will see a lot of repeat e stroke words. Words like psheessheeor,choctheeey,tcheychedy,toeeedchy.
How to explain all this?
I feel that the author is having a bit of fun, playing with the letters. It is easy and satisfying for anyone to write in consecutive regularity. Try it yourself. You will find writing daiiiiin,cheeeeey easy. It is psychological stroking to do this. The author seems to be choosing to write in a style that is not too taxing. This feels logical. The author is doodling with words.
This can explain why i and e are the only strokes that repeat. kk,dd,oo,ll, requiring more movement of the hand, occur very infrequently. One significant occasion when oo is repeating is in the improbable and probably meaningless circular word ooooooooolar in f70r1. Here the author must surely be doing it for fun.
Unfortunately, this does rather lengthen the odds of the manuscript being meaningful. Meaningful no longer being the bookies favourite.
How to explain all this?
I feel that the author is having a bit of fun, playing with the letters. It is easy and satisfying for anyone to write in consecutive regularity. Try it yourself. You will find writing daiiiiin,cheeeeey easy. It is psychological stroking to do this. The author seems to be choosing to write in a style that is not too taxing. This feels logical. The author is doodling with words.
This can explain why i and e are the only strokes that repeat. kk,dd,oo,ll, requiring more movement of the hand, occur very infrequently. One significant occasion when oo is repeating is in the improbable and probably meaningless circular word ooooooooolar in f70r1. Here the author must surely be doing it for fun.
Unfortunately, this does rather lengthen the odds of the manuscript being meaningful. Meaningful no longer being the bookies favourite.