25-10-2021, 10:01 PM
I don't remember where I wrote that, but it probably has to do with this quote I made from ReneZ:
The following symbols: q f p m y are demonstrably not to be identified with letters.
That's five out of (say) 25. How confident can one be that the others are?
And even if they are, what to make of a mixture of letters and non-letters?
Later ReneZ specified:
To keep this in the right context, what I meant is: they are not letters, but they could be, among other things:
Parts of letters (even diacritics)
Variant forms of letters
I wrote what you bi3mw quote because I suppose that many people who have studied the VM for many years will agree with ReneZ
I also think that they are not letters but for another reason
The following symbols: q f p m y are demonstrably not to be identified with letters.
That's five out of (say) 25. How confident can one be that the others are?
And even if they are, what to make of a mixture of letters and non-letters?
Later ReneZ specified:
To keep this in the right context, what I meant is: they are not letters, but they could be, among other things:
Parts of letters (even diacritics)
Variant forms of letters
I wrote what you bi3mw quote because I suppose that many people who have studied the VM for many years will agree with ReneZ
I also think that they are not letters but for another reason


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