Re: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

Title: RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

GALLOWS

Are not ornaments but letters.

I will try to explain the letters known in VMs org. as ?gallows?.

The images given bellow are numbered from 1 ? 12.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 11 12

Images # 1,4,6,7,10 and 12 are letters ?T?.

In the VMs text one can notice variations due to hand writing.

Images # 2,3,8, and 9 represent two letters ?ST or SHT? tht can stand alone or in words.

The meaning of the single words are:

ST = STO = 100 (one hundred)

SHT= SHTO = what (archic)

Image # 5 is letter ?SHCH? = SHCHO = what, why

Image # 11 is a word PSHT or PST with the following meaning.

PSHT = POSHTO = for what (reason)

PST = POSTO = for each 100

PST = PUSTO = empty, void, hollow

Please note that letters # 2,3,8 and 9 are made by adding small triangle to the top

side of letter T.

In VMS alphabet there are two letters for letter S or SH.

The letter S or SH that looks like number 4 is always written at the beginning of the word.

The other S or SH is used in the middle or at the end of the word.

See alphabet Table in my Home Page. http://home.att.net/~oko/home.htm

john

----- Original Message -----

From: Jon Grove

To: 'vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx'

Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:35 AM

Subject: RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

> [...]
> In any case, if these gallows are merely ornamental,
> then either they are like 'nulls' or they are
> like beautified versions of other characters.
> A consistent explanation has not yet been found.
> Maybe there was no consistent 'rule'.

Regarding the theory that the gallows characters represent some kind of flourish to ornament other characters - one of the first posts I made to this group pointed out an interesting (to me, anyway!) observation.

In a number of places, it appears as though the gallows characters were drawn in stages, so that the bottom halves of the 'legs' were drawn separately from the top halves. I observed this in a number of places - sometimes it looks as though the pen paused, sometimes as though there is an actual gap in the lines, sometimes just a 'kink'. Could it be that the gallows are, at least sometimes, ornaments to standard /i/ or /e/ characters?

Here's a small image containing various examples of what I'm talking about.

Cheers,
Jon.

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