3 hours ago
f p characters need to be written with two horizontal lines whereas k t just need one. So they need to be written taller and need more top room. Within a paragraph of packed text there might not be enough top room and this might explain why they don’t seem to appear often there. Paragraph first lines seem to be their preferred location.
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So perhaps there is no linguistic or evolutionary explanation for their frequency. It might just be a product of language B pages have longer lines, bigger paragraphs, tight writing, and language A pages having more free space to accommodate the plant drawings.
It would be interesting to see a graph of f p counts plotted against their paragraph word size. A flat graph would show the 'top room' effect to be true.
I tried to say something about this earlier [ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ].
So perhaps there is no linguistic or evolutionary explanation for their frequency. It might just be a product of language B pages have longer lines, bigger paragraphs, tight writing, and language A pages having more free space to accommodate the plant drawings.
It would be interesting to see a graph of f p counts plotted against their paragraph word size. A flat graph would show the 'top room' effect to be true.