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Learning to Spell in Linear B: Orthography and Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos

“…However, this analysis of orthographic variation has shown that writers generally made on-the-spot choices as to the best spelling to use in the context of the particular text they were writing, influenced by their training in the writing system's conventions, by the practices of other members of their community, and by a wide variety of other orthographic, linguistic and administrative factors. It thus adds to the growing picture of these writers' practices in and attitudes towards their writing: whether in the context of orthography or in other aspects of their writing practicessuch as creating new signs, 141 formatting and editing their own or others' documents, 142 developing new and individual administrative techniques 143 or representing varying aspects of their spoken language 144 the Mycenaean scribes were practical, flexible writers, employing a range of strategies for the optimum presentation of their administrative documents, and making full use of rather…”