Re: VMs: Latin abbreviations

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

hi mdp11 & all :-)

you wrote:
 

 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:30:39 +0100 From: Matthew Platts
 <mdp114@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx To:
 vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: VMs: Latin abbreviations
 
 I'm afraid I am relatively new to this game, so please have mercy if
 what I say seems ridiculous, or has been said too many times before.
 
 Does the idea of Latin abbreviations not raise questions about who
 the Voynich manuscript was intended for? If it's a write-only
 document with incomprehensible abbreviations, only understood by the
 author(s), then the neatness, the lack of crossings-out, the exotic
 drawings of nymphs and the like do not make much sense. Why would
 the author go to the trouble of ensuring that the VMS was a
 more-or-less pristine copy with precise diagrams if it was only a
 set of notes for his own benefit?
 
 If, on the other hand, the VMS is intended for someone else, maybe
 for posterity, it might be ciphered so that only men of learning
 could understand it. This would require the cipher to be logical,
 and context-dependancy wouldn't help matters.
<snip...)

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"IT's" NOT abbreviated (latin) .. so much as ((posterity)'ly) kept for
NOW, - & "The Time is NOW!" (perES)

It is (1) logical
It is (2) visual (caught your EYE there etc..)
It is (3) flowing 

best to you & yours,
-=se=-
steve (logical,visual..flowing....) ekwall



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