02-02-2019, 08:32 PM
(02-02-2019, 06:05 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-02-2019, 10:17 AM)crezac wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
But that's not proof that the glyphs originated as an appropriation of anything Latin or that they will follow the same rules.
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BUT there is SOMETHING going on, because if certain of the Voynichese Latin glyph-shapes fall into the same POSITIONS as they do in languages that use Latin characters, then not only was the designer familiar with Latin characters and abbreviations, but the person was manipulating Voynichese in some way that is similar to the way Latin abbreviations are used.
I think there will be some connection with the history of the abbreviations or of the glyphs themselves. I can't express my idea properly yet, i know nothing of philology and can't find information to help me formulate the means by which the answer could be sought. But i feel like it will be some knowledge they had regarding the progression of the rules, how the usages evolved, or anomalies of their usage from different places or times. Tips and tricks built into a code you can read once you know all the tips and tricks....or possibly there is extra encoding that further enhances the meaning of what is written, like, if this glyph is built into the vord, it is from this period of time, but here is the same word from a different period of time and it has different connotations now that time has passed and events have happened, so we insert a different glyph to indicate this, or change the first glyph in some way. Like how in modern times words like bad, sick, cool, hot are used in very different ways than originally used (the latter two have nothing to do with temperature and are almost synonyms) so you would mark them to avoid confusion. Or similar names that keep recurring, you might add glyphs to indicate it is this one vs that one rather than writing out the long versions. Or different words for the same thing, names for places that change over time.
Maybe they chose to use the penultimate glyphs to correspond with the contemporary ones but because they dont change at the same time, you are left with a mishmash of glyphs that dont seem to go together, but their commonality is that they are all the progenitors of the current set.

