16-05-2019, 07:01 AM
Koen: It is about whether the left hand-side of gallows characters like the t shape is visually a "4".
My interest in this is that it has implications for the origins of the Voynich script. So if the Voynichese t symbol is visually a "4p" or a "qp", makes a difference to the more or less likely origins of the script. For example we see shapes like "qp" in the Glagolitic alphabet, but not "4p", in the diplomatic cipher scripts that I am particularly interested in we do see shapes like "4p".
So the question I am interested in is the visual appearance or simply how the left side of gallows characters looks. I believe it is possible to answer this question more precisely or rigourously and I have ideas to how we can do this, which I begun to discuss in this thread. However I really wanted to hear what other people have to say regarding whether they think the left side of some gallows is visually a "4".
My interest in this is that it has implications for the origins of the Voynich script. So if the Voynichese t symbol is visually a "4p" or a "qp", makes a difference to the more or less likely origins of the script. For example we see shapes like "qp" in the Glagolitic alphabet, but not "4p", in the diplomatic cipher scripts that I am particularly interested in we do see shapes like "4p".
So the question I am interested in is the visual appearance or simply how the left side of gallows characters looks. I believe it is possible to answer this question more precisely or rigourously and I have ideas to how we can do this, which I begun to discuss in this thread. However I really wanted to hear what other people have to say regarding whether they think the left side of some gallows is visually a "4".