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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 611254, member: 5833"]I'm not even sure he has his transliteration completely right. Would love to learn the result if some substitutions I have in mind were made. One of his figures (#26, I think) is missing from the on line version of his paper. The blog at the link Kronos posted has a snippet that contradicts how Cheshire says his 'standing' & 'sitting' S was used. There are so many clusters of words with similar spellings, so presumably similar sound, there's a poetic, alliterative quality to it, like something that was handed down in song or other oral tradition. Italy still has a plethora of regional dialects, imagine what it was like when this document was written, and on an island. Cheshire's interpretation certainly seems very forced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 611254, member: 5833"]I'm not even sure he has his transliteration completely right. Would love to learn the result if some substitutions I have in mind were made. One of his figures (#26, I think) is missing from the on line version of his paper. The blog at the link Kronos posted has a snippet that contradicts how Cheshire says his 'standing' & 'sitting' S was used. There are so many clusters of words with similar spellings, so presumably similar sound, there's a poetic, alliterative quality to it, like something that was handed down in song or other oral tradition. Italy still has a plethora of regional dialects, imagine what it was like when this document was written, and on an island. Cheshire's interpretation certainly seems very forced.[/QUOTE]
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