Quote:I didn't find Bax' ideas to be too convincing to be honest, but it will be interesting to see what you've come up with.
I liked Bax's "down to earth" approach, but it suffers from a number of bad assumptions, which make his glyph values unreliable.
(For example, why assume that the first word is the plant name? Why assume SOV word order? Why assume that the word appears in a more or less neutral form, unaltered by grammar?)
I'm hoping to remedy this in my paper, but I'm stil ironing out the final bumps. Like this annoying "pi" glyph.
Is there any consensus on the amount of glyphs these are? There is "pi" without anything, pi with a curvy line that touches the middle, pi with the same curvy line that touches the left leg, and pi with a curvy line that just kind of floats there. Am I correct in assuming these four forms?
Edit: just saw the second table in the link you posted, that's quite enlightening. Thanks!