As pointed out by sb else in this forum (can't recall who), if the scribe(s) really thought of the text to be asemic and were making it up on the go, it would be very weird to go back and try to squeeze in some extra vords between two lines like so:
It certainly looks as if the scribe paused and went back to add something after having written the line below.
The dairol on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looks out of place outside of the circle, ruining the symmetry and put there seemingly as if it were something relevant to the contents.
I agree most of the times the scribes seem to be padding or truncating the words just before a drawing intrudes, but there are some instances of a word too long to fit within the remaining whitespace, being written with its last glyphs all cramped or outright ending abruptly.
Of course you could argue that the VMS is actually a copy, and the copyist had no way of knowing whether the original had any meaning or not, and just played it safe and copied everything as instructed, or that it was such a good hoax that they even anticipated us looking at these things as evidence that there's some meaning to it, but the latter seems kind of a stretch to me
It certainly looks as if the scribe paused and went back to add something after having written the line below.
The dairol on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looks out of place outside of the circle, ruining the symmetry and put there seemingly as if it were something relevant to the contents.
I agree most of the times the scribes seem to be padding or truncating the words just before a drawing intrudes, but there are some instances of a word too long to fit within the remaining whitespace, being written with its last glyphs all cramped or outright ending abruptly.
Of course you could argue that the VMS is actually a copy, and the copyist had no way of knowing whether the original had any meaning or not, and just played it safe and copied everything as instructed, or that it was such a good hoax that they even anticipated us looking at these things as evidence that there's some meaning to it, but the latter seems kind of a stretch to me
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