Re: Lateralised Chinese characters

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >A second thought: what if the VMS characters where stroke information, 
> i.e.
> >you apply the appropiate strokes from left to right resulting in a 
> chinese
> >character (maybe a dumb thought).
>
>
> Not a dumb thought at all. In fact, even though it would be
> a simple-substitution code, it would be unbreakable to
> anyone who cannot write Chinese, and to anyone who can
> write Chinese but did not think of the idea.
>
> I doubt this is the solution, but it is an excellent
> suggestion.

I once bought a booklet explaining a mnemonic system based on these
lines. I can't remember the details, but the idea was that a
horizontal stroke was represented by, say, 'a', a vertical one
by 'b' and so on. It didn't work for me. A very few radicals on
the left hand side are so very frequent that the mnemonics looked
just as monotonous as the characters they represented. If anyone
is serious about this theory, they have to say how Voynichese
would represent the character 'yin1', 'sound', which begins with
four horizontal strokes pile on top of a square and is an extremely
common radical.

A very nice idea though.

Philip Neal


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