Women's Script Question

[Seon Are]

In Words of Radiance, we find out that for proper nouns like Nohadon that are meant to be symmetrical, the name is spelled symmetrical and then a didactic mark is added to show that the letter is pronounced like and h. For instance, Nohadon would be spelled Nod`adon. I haven't found anywhere on the Coppermind page for women's script or on the major explanation of women's script on the shard that mentions this, and I was wondering if we have any examples of what this looks like.

[PandACT]

There's no didactic marks that I know of, but technically h does have a little line after it and looks a little like a backwards d... But that explanation seems insufficient. (So does the fact that Brandon and Isaac don't strictly line up the text with the art) Are we sure that's referring to women's script? Bending the rules for artistic symmetry is very glyph-y, though that wouldn't make sense either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You have me curious!

[Seon Are]

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"The h sound can be for any letter," Shallan said absently. "We write it as the symmetrical letter, to make the word balance, but add a diacritical mark to indicate it sounds lake an h so the word is easier to say."

As Shallan tells Pattern, there is a mark and it isn't just for d but for any letter. And since the entire reason we call him Nohadon is that it is symmetrical in women's script I doubt that it is glyphs.

Edit: Also the lines after the letters are in the 4th and 5th letters in all 5 sets of letters. In other words that is in 2/5ths of the letters in women's script.

Edited April 13, 2019 by Seon Are

[Karger]

Glyphs are also not an actual writing system they are a collection of nouns and adjectives with no grammar that have to be memorized.