Re: VMs: Re: New VMS transcriptions

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

Or that it takes a full paragraph to encode a sentence.  

Heck, maybe 
oky or dar dar dar dchoday oly cph
is:
 w  e  l   l   l    i   k   e   d





Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx

>>> hurychj@xxxxxxxxx 06/20/04 13:39 PM >>>
Hello,  

did anybody speculate why the VM contains no commas nor full-stops? After all the dot as an ending of the sentence was commonly used in the  14th century Europe ( written little bit higher than today) and was already followed by a capital letter. As for comma, I am not sure, in some cases it looks like the dot was also used in that sense.  Instead of sentences  - in strict sense of the word - there are only "paragraphs" in the VM. 

Two reasons come to my mind: 
a) the author did not need full-stops for clarity - he just skipped to next line
b) in cipher text,  we do not need them either - they would be a clear giveaway.

Jan

======= At 2004-06-20, 10:03:00 you wrote: =======

>Jeff,
>This is indeed a piece of information that needs to be included, and I've
>troubled over it to some extent, especially finding a symbol to replace the
>half-space.  My proposal is the "dash" -  to indicate possible connectivity
>within the word.
>
>GC
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Voynich Mailing List" <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 8:10 AM
>Subject: VMs: New VMS transcriptions
>
>
>> For any proposed new VMS transcriptions I would suggest these symbols to
>> indicate spacing.
>>
>> A period '.' for an agreed full space, a comma ',' for an agreed half
>space,
>> a semi colon ';' for a disputed spacing and a colon ':' for paragraph end.
>>
>> This seems to me to be the most logical system. Others may disagree. It
>> would however give a clear indication of how the consensus stands at any
>> given time as transcriptions procede.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
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