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Wladimir D > 28-02-2016, 04:43 PM
-JKP- > 28-02-2016, 05:16 PM
(28-02-2016, 04:43 PM)Wladimir D Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I and has not waited the comments on the site Bax, of the possibility of the existence of symbol "vertical line". Thus I bring a new argument. By analogy with figures 1-5 see Fig. 6, 7. Here, the bottom of leg of gallows concern the (thick) "vertical line".
Gallows "t" in Figure 8, author initially wanted to write on the second floor (two hooks on the legs are visible). But then extend legs to the base line. Such the inconsequential adjustment is necessary only, if the text makes sense ?!
Sam G > 28-02-2016, 08:34 PM
(20-01-2016, 03:05 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is an interesting discussion in itself, so I decided to open a separate thread.
This thought occurred to me right after reading Cham's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about the "Curve-Line system" which, among other things, makes accent on how some Voynich characters can be decomposed into more elementary characters - the basic e or i and one of the possible "tail modifiers" - an idea generally expressed earlier by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
It appears that the gallows can well be decomposed in a similar way (please excuse awkward graphics, I'm not a professional web designer):
Quote:All four plain gallows result from combining either EVA "q" or the vertical line with one of the two tail modifiers (marked as t1 and t2). Note that these tail modifiers, when combined with elementary e or i, mostly yield valid Voynichese characters:
The only point of question here is the third expression. "z" is a valid character that is encountered, though rarely, in the VMS, but in contrast to i which is normally at a 45 deg. angle, z is perpendicular to the baseline. So it is not clear whether z is really meant to be a combination of i and t1.
- e + t1 = d
- e + t2 = g
- i + t1 = z (?)
- i + t2 = m