arca_libraria > 08-10-2019, 04:30 PM
(08-10-2019, 03:25 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Arca thanks, yes, for the different uses of the dots and for the reminder that reading aloud was very important in those days.
And... dots were used to mark numbers (since numbers were letters).
ReneZ > 08-10-2019, 05:10 PM
-JKP- > 08-10-2019, 05:46 PM
(08-10-2019, 05:10 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
A problem is that people tended to rely on 'known words' to decide which spaces were 'real' or rather intentional, and which not.
Stephen Carlson > 09-10-2019, 10:48 PM
(08-10-2019, 01:44 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I believe it is possible to read the half-spaces. You just have to become extremely familiar with both the script and the structure.Are these half-spaces optional? Could they be a clue to some kind of internal syllabification (assuming that the creator had a way of pronouncing the glyphs, like EVA)?
They follow patterns. You will see them more often after certain characters and between certain blocks. If this were not the case, I wouldn't even have mentioned it.
-JKP- > 10-10-2019, 02:23 AM
Koen G > 11-10-2019, 11:25 AM
-JKP- > 11-10-2019, 01:54 PM
Koen G > 11-10-2019, 02:02 PM
-JKP- > 11-10-2019, 02:09 PM
ReneZ > 11-10-2019, 02:46 PM
(11-10-2019, 02:09 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But we don't know anything about "ni" because there is only one.
The difference is that the VMS is 200 folios and there is a pattern to the half-spaces that is associated with common blocks of characters.