Re: Exciting New Discovery!

[bfarnell@xxxxxxx]

Bruce Grant wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I'd like to suggest a theory:
> 
> I recently noticed in Cappelli, in Tavola VI. that the 'ch' symbol is used
> several times to represent the Latin word 'et'. (It occurs in the middle of the
> page, in a sentence reading "Quam Finem Refutacionem et omnia et singula
> suprascripta et infrascripta promixit ...")
> 
> Perhaps a gallows letter indicates the beginning of a clause (which would also
> explain why so many pages start with one), and the 'ch' wrapped around the
> gallows letter is an 'et' connecting it with the previous clause (in the same
> sentence). If each sentence began on a new line, there would then be no
> line-initial 'wrapped gallows' letters.
> 
> Bruce

Yes, very interesting, of course the number of gallows beginning LINES
is kind of unusual.  If the theory is correct, doesn't it take us back
to the idea of VMS as a poetic work?  Also, what does that leave us to
think about the Grove Words?  Would they not indicate that words were
still smaller than we thought before?  Of course if gallows characters
do indicate the beginnings of phrases, the gallows words should give us
some of the key, they all must be words commonly figuring into
conjunctivial phrases:

"Therefore I believe..."
"In my honest opinion..."
"Without a doubt..." 
(and my favorite from Karl Marx) "In a word..."

Regards,
Brian