05-11-2025, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-11-2025, 11:02 PM by Mark Knowles.)
Has anyone studied or thought much about the distribution of this symbol (EVA-x) throughout the manuscript? It seems to me anecdotally that when this character appears in one place on a page it is much more likely to appear somewhere else on the same page. There could be a variety of explanations for this:
1) If a word requiring this character appears once on a page then maybe the word or a related word also appears on the page.
2) Some pages seem to me to have a wider vocabulary than others and so are more likely to require this character.
3) Copying and modifying existing real words when producing filler words on a page will make this character more likely to be copied.
(Some might argue for language or dialect differences between pages and authors)
I doubt (1) as this character seems to appear in the context of different spellings.
It seems that what is true of this character is also true of other rare characters.
1) If a word requiring this character appears once on a page then maybe the word or a related word also appears on the page.
2) Some pages seem to me to have a wider vocabulary than others and so are more likely to require this character.
3) Copying and modifying existing real words when producing filler words on a page will make this character more likely to be copied.
(Some might argue for language or dialect differences between pages and authors)
I doubt (1) as this character seems to appear in the context of different spellings.
It seems that what is true of this character is also true of other rare characters.
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