(27-06-2018, 04:27 PM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco, Yes exactly.
This is the sort of consideration that makes me skeptical.
The same could be said of the Eva-f analogue you guys were looking at in the other gallows thread - I was going to say Bingo, smoking gun,... but on closer inspection I think the loop was done in the opposite direction to that in the VMS and crossed the ascender at the top of the main "p-like" loop rather than at the bottom as in the VMS,
Is it just a lazy scribe or maybe stubborn and a bit innovative perhaps?
It's puzzling indeed. Since Voynichese appears to be a newly invented alphabet, it seems reasonable to assume that whoever invented it was not afraid of innovating. It also seems reasonable to think that the author was inspired by contemporary scripts (this apparently happened a lot in other invented alphabets, i.e. ciphers).
But what exactly are you skeptical about? What is your opinion at the current state of this discussion?