Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2020 August 31

= August 31 =

Leiden Conventions
In the Leiden Conventions, what is the difference between "letters missing" and "letters erroneously omitted"? —Mahāgaja · talk 23:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Letters missing would indicate that the manuscript has a gap, or what we call a lacuna. Usually this is due to damage of some sort to the writing. Letters erroneously omitted means that the scribe perhaps made a misspelling, or mistranscribed something and forgot to write down some letters/words in the text.  bibliomaniac 1  5  02:15, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks; so at, "$⟨s⟩$í" in line 7 means the scribe wrote "í" but the editor assumes the scribe meant to write "sí" (presumably the "s" of the preceding word is doing double duty), while "Me[i]c" in line 9 means the scribe did actually write "Meic" but the "i" is worn away or damaged in some way? (Assuming of course that this edition follows the Leiden Conventions.) —Mahāgaja · talk 07:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that should be right. Leiden Conventions were 1931 while this volume was published 1935. First time I've seen this for Gaelic though (not that I would have any experience in that at all...)  bibliomaniac 1  5  18:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)