Mycenaean (Standardization)

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>By stylized, do you mean "fill-in the blank" kind of forms?

-- essentially.  All the Linear B documents are to do with the management of
palace holdings.

>The original point was that a  language that splinters into dialects is
>moving towards imprecision.

-- no, it isn't.  It's not become less precise, it's developing differences.
Speakers of the same dialect will have no problem with it.

>precise sound, grapheme and reference.

-- what exactly do you _mean_ by this?