It is difficult to explain the difference in approach to long accents between bars 99 and 100, since in A the signs in bar 100 are not longer than the previous ones at all. Perhaps they key to solving the puzzle is the overlooked third accent: if initially GE1 overlooked all accents in this bar, Chopin, while proofreading the edition, could have added the first two, which, this time, were incorrectly reproduced as .
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issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Errors in GE, GE revisions, EE inaccuracies
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins