The gallows characters (except for k) are not Latin. The language does not read as Latin.
Many alphabets have "c", "o", "s", and "p" shapes, but the character set as a whole might still be completely unfamiliar to someone who only knows the Latin character set.
Take out the gallows chars and you have Latin chars, but that doesn't make it Latin language. The chars are in the wrong proportions and are too repetitive, and in Latin you don't find 4 of the same character in a row. In other words, given the peculiarities of position and characters-in-a-row and some of the gallows characters, it becomes a hieroglyphic (unfamiliar) character set.
Hieroglyphs was a general term for foreign alphabet.
It can be a foreign alphabet and still have letters in common with Latin.
I think it's exactly because the shapes WERE familiar that they understood that it could not be read as Latin, because Kircher's social group knew Latin.
The majority of people announcing Latin solutions do not know Latin. They keep insisting it's Latin even though the text they present isn't close to Latin, even when people who know Latin point this out, so it's pretty evident that people who don't know Latin have the "impression" or the conviction that it's Latin, but not the actual knowledge necessary to judge.
Many alphabets have "c", "o", "s", and "p" shapes, but the character set as a whole might still be completely unfamiliar to someone who only knows the Latin character set.
Take out the gallows chars and you have Latin chars, but that doesn't make it Latin language. The chars are in the wrong proportions and are too repetitive, and in Latin you don't find 4 of the same character in a row. In other words, given the peculiarities of position and characters-in-a-row and some of the gallows characters, it becomes a hieroglyphic (unfamiliar) character set.
Hieroglyphs was a general term for foreign alphabet.
It can be a foreign alphabet and still have letters in common with Latin.
I think it's exactly because the shapes WERE familiar that they understood that it could not be read as Latin, because Kircher's social group knew Latin.
The majority of people announcing Latin solutions do not know Latin. They keep insisting it's Latin even though the text they present isn't close to Latin, even when people who know Latin point this out, so it's pretty evident that people who don't know Latin have the "impression" or the conviction that it's Latin, but not the actual knowledge necessary to judge.