(17-09-2018, 02:30 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think some of the fancy gallows (the ones that are stacked vertically) might be a way of writing gallows + gallows.
Since they are only found on the first line of paragraphs, they are not useful in the rest of the text. My speculation is that they allude to how the cipher works.
Quote:The word cistus (a kind of wild rose) is usually written cisty (cist + [us]), but occasionally it was written gm (cis+tis) and this less common variation was perfectly readable.
Anything too easily identifiable, such as Latin abbreviations, is probably part of the deception, not part of the solution, so I am looking for alternative interpretations.
In Pisces, a very interesting instance of a glyph drawn like
k, but it is at the end of the token and, like
m, is drawn with a descending tail:
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Also, very interesting, this is different handwriting, very different from the other hands in the manuscript.
Whoever wrote it understood the basic Voynichese glyphs, but did not handle a pen in the same way. The one on the right may be in this same alternate hand but it's harder to tell because it doesn't have the long telltale descenders, but note how the "9" doesn't have the same thick/thin characteristics as the other text:
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Hmm indeed, the m in the left is unusual.
There is another strange gallows. Here, the writer did not even consider it necessary (simplified writing) to make loops on the right and left. From this example, you can make the assumption that the loops are just decoration, or these two “vertical lines” intersect with a horizontal line. As if he was trying to write a Latin double “L” with a macron.
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You're right, Wladimir, double-ell with a macron would look like that.
Also notice the "cap" on the ch to the right of it is written like a full "9" apostrophe (in Latin, it usually represents "us" when superscripted in the middle of a word like this).
If one considers that "Item" in Latin and "Il" in French are both written like k, and that the letter pi in Greek is sometimes written with two loops at the top, AND that double-ell with a macron is written with the macron crossing the ascenders, it's really not so surprising that a glyph designer would come up with the shape for t.
I have lost the opportunity to retransmit the EVA alphabet from the WORD program in posts. There is a reflection in Latin. Therefore, I will insert pictures here.
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