Expert Opinions on 'daiin'

[Mark Knowles]

Unfortunately less common glyphs are often ignored when looking at the manuscript and so the number of different glyphs is easily ignored.

Because uncommon glyphs don't count towards your alphabet - they can't "work" for you, as it were. 

You don't know what "my alphabet" is. It seems to me that there are more glyphs than in a normal alphabet. I said nothing about working for me. So, I don't know what you mean by this.

It's more like finding some numerals (1, 2, 3) or rare abbreviation symbols here and there and then pretending like the system is behaving normally because you counted enough glyphs for an alphabet.

I have never said that the system is behaving normally, but I have my own explanation for this. I am not pretending anything. I really don't know what you are talking about again.

It's also more complicated than just making new glyphs, because where you gain [aiin], you lose the "glyphhood" of [i, n] and eventually [a]. You will end up with more "letters" at the end of the ride, but those are still appearing in very constrained positions, so you may need to reduce them again by considering positional variation.

You don't necessarily lose "a" or "n". It is possible to have "a", "n", "ain", "aiin" and "aiiin" as separate glyphs.

I don't see why you need to reduce them by considering positional variation.