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(26-09-2019, 04:03 PM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes I agree that the S is always a stand-alone character (free floating symbol). 
The -g symbol, does not seem to be a real char. to me (based on form & context), so that symbol that not exist in my book.
The -m is indeed also an abbrev. which can be easily proven based on the context.

I suspect the [am] is the highest form of abbreviation. A lower form could be stand for [ail] or [aiin], [ain] which both are related to each other.
It seems to me that the word in a sentence morphs towards a longer form sometimes, and then suddenly collapses into a more abbreviated form.

I'm inclined to agree about [m] and [g]. I've resisted concluding these characters are abbreviations for other character strings, because I don't want to take their close resemblance to Latin scribal abbreviations at face value. But given their strong preference for the ends of lines, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that they're some kind of line-end forms of other characters. Given the observation of LAAFU, abbreviations for avoiding going onto a new line make a lot of sense.

I hadn't realized [s] nearly always stands alone as a complete vord, and want to explore this further. Do you have a link to your research where you talk more about the apparent properties of [s] in the VMS?

Many people have mentioned that [s] seems to be composed of [c] or [e] with a hook modifier, in much the same way that [r] can be seen as {i} with a hook modifier. I'm open to the possibility that [s] is basically [e] used as a one-character word, as some kind of grammatical particle, but required by Voynichese orthographic convention to carry a hook modifier whenever this character stands alone as a word. I'm reminded of the way modern Italian distinguishes the word a from ha, and the word e from è, to make reading easier and to avoid ambiguity. Or, for that matter, the way English always capitalizes the words I and O, for similar reasons.
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Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 25-09-2019, 10:10 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by Davidsch - 25-09-2019, 04:12 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 25-09-2019, 07:36 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by Koen G - 25-09-2019, 08:06 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by bi3mw - 25-09-2019, 09:24 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by -JKP- - 26-09-2019, 01:03 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by Davidsch - 26-09-2019, 04:03 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by RenegadeHealer - 26-09-2019, 06:39 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 28-09-2019, 08:11 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by RobGea - 30-09-2019, 02:13 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 30-09-2019, 05:49 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by bi3mw - 30-09-2019, 05:54 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by -JKP- - 01-10-2019, 12:09 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 05-10-2019, 04:37 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 06-10-2019, 12:27 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 24-10-2019, 05:22 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by MarcoP - 26-10-2019, 07:06 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by Davidsch - 29-10-2019, 01:38 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by asteckley - 29-04-2024, 03:11 PM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by dfs346 - 02-05-2024, 08:59 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by asteckley - 03-05-2024, 06:36 AM
RE: Lines interrupted by drawings - by dfs346 - 13-07-2024, 10:28 AM

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