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VMs: Re: RE: RE: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.

Title: RE: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.
Gallows are defined.  
 
   1         2              3          4             5           6            7
       8            9             10          11          12
 
I numbered the alphabets (gallows) from 1-12.
The letters (gallows) have the following meanings;
No. 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 12 are letter " T "
No. 2, 3, 8, 9 are two letters combined, " ST " or " SH T "
No. 11 is 3-letters combined, " PST " or " PSHT "
In VMs alphabet there are two letters for S or SH
The VMs letter that look like number 4 is always used at the
beginning of word or sentence. Observe the combination
of ST or SHT in N0. 2, 3, 8 and 9.
Also observe difference in hand writings.
 
John
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Grove
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: VMs: RE: RE: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.

I've put the image at:
 
Jon.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Grove [mailto:JGrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 February 2004 17:14
To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: VMs: RE: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.
Importance: Low

Hi Barbara,

In your detailed examination of the script, have you noticed that frequently the 'legs' of the gallows characters appear to have been drawn in halves? It's as though one or two short strokes were drawn for the foot/feet, and then the top half added in a separate movement. Sometimes there is a small gap in the middle of a leg, sometimes a kink, sometimes a slight overlap. In some cases the second 'foot' of a /t/ or /k/ looks like it started out as an /e/. Of course I don't know what it means, but it struck me as a strange way to have written these characters. Maybe using a quill forces one to use a writing style which seems illogical to someone who's never tried it - what do you think?

I have a jpg of various examples, if anyone's interested.

Jon.