(21-04-2016, 10:50 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Of course, this deserves a serious study, and I agree that a true paleographer would save us a lot of trouble!
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Paleographers disagree with each other almost as often as researchers on this forum. And not every paleographer is good at languages (or knows a specific language).
Also, it's such a broad field (thousands of years, thousands of regional styles)—they have to specialize. Many paleographers who can read Carolingian struggle with Gothic cursive, especially if it's heavily abbreviated.
It gets even more complicated when it's macaronic language with constant context-switching, especially if there aren't enough letters in each word or phrase to know which language is meant.