21-04-2025, 01:40 PM
(21-04-2025, 11:26 AM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The writer may not have been sure if the next letter should be "a" or "y" for example, but once that letter was on the paper the choices for the next character are set.
This is one of the big uncertainties about the manuscript, why it is that some characters do not join easily to others. I have found it useful to generate matrices of character affinities that show the frequency of character pairs as a factor of what would be expected if the characters were distributed randomly.
The first one is for Bio B2, the second for Herbal A1, and data was taken from the GC2a-n transliteration.
In particular you will see that cho and ed have greatly different affinities in the two sections. How do you explain that?