20-09-2025, 11:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-09-2025, 11:19 PM by Bluetoes101.)
I think what it might show, though many other things also show, is a Latin influence
There are some more, like
What makes these (rare) examples interesting to me is that I've always considered the text a cipher (of sorts) "hidden meaning" is probably a better term, maybe it's an experimental cipher, maybe it's as Antonio thinks - shapes with some abstract meaning, a "visual code". Maybe a constructed language, who knows for sure. But the existence of them makes me think they are needed, and meaningful to the message being written in some way.. even if it was a mistake or a slip of the mind of the scribe and they automatically added them out of habit/by mistake. It seems to me they were at least thinking in terms of language, and the language they were thinking of was Latin, and if the text is in cipher of some sort this wouldn't fit, so it was either a mistake by the writer, or its not a cipher/text with "hidden meaning". Basically they feel hard to place beyond "latin influence".
There are some more, like
What makes these (rare) examples interesting to me is that I've always considered the text a cipher (of sorts) "hidden meaning" is probably a better term, maybe it's an experimental cipher, maybe it's as Antonio thinks - shapes with some abstract meaning, a "visual code". Maybe a constructed language, who knows for sure. But the existence of them makes me think they are needed, and meaningful to the message being written in some way.. even if it was a mistake or a slip of the mind of the scribe and they automatically added them out of habit/by mistake. It seems to me they were at least thinking in terms of language, and the language they were thinking of was Latin, and if the text is in cipher of some sort this wouldn't fit, so it was either a mistake by the writer, or its not a cipher/text with "hidden meaning". Basically they feel hard to place beyond "latin influence".