The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[MarcoP]

There have been anecdotal reports that Voynichese is not very convenient to write, at least not with a quill. [...] The most obvious examples are the gallows. If these are just 4 characters, then using a simple v shape rotated in 4 cardinal directions would create a much simpler script

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Thus rotating a character by 90 degrees is not a good idea, as strokes in the "good" directions will become strokes in the "bad" directions.  The main strokes of the Voynichese glyphs, like e and the two sides of the o, are traced the SW, S, and N directions. The plumes of s, r, Sh, n, and part of the loops of d, m, t, k etc seem to be traced mostly in the "bad" direction. 

Still it's interesting that the vowels a,e,o,u in Giovanni Fontana's cipher (1420 ca) were rotations of the same simple shape. Example from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. cesto da uoue=egg basket