RE: VMs: News and Replies

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> I then think that the "4" character (which
> overwhelmingly appears in in its
> "4o" form) was a "hacked-on" later addition, probably
> by a different
> code-designer, to solve specific functional omissions
> from the code (ie, a
> missing letter or function) that had somehow got
> overlooked. I infer this
> because the "4" has such a radically different
> stroke-form from the others,
> that it seems likely to have been created by a different author.

While I agree in principle that many of the characters are
extracted from some remnant of Tyronian Notes, I disagree on the
"4o" form being out of synch with the rest of the cipherbet.  I
have always viewed it as an artistic form akin to the gallows
characters, which start with the "4" stroke and also have an "o"
loop.  Indeed, there are a few "squat" gallows that resemble the
"4o".  Apart from this observation, I haven't really ran any tests
to see whether the "4o" combination acts like a gallows or not, so
this is simply a subjective observation on the "artistry" of the
manuscript.  I still haven't found the source, but I seem to
remember that the "4o" was indeed astrologically based, or at
least could quite possibly be.  Have you looked into this?

GC

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