Re: Evolution - was VMs: Inks and retouching

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1/08/2004 1:47:08 PM, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sunday 01 August 2004 11:41, Koontz John E wrote:

>> Might I also ask, as a latecomer, what the b is, structurally?

>Same as above, this is also a "new" character. It is like an all curved <n>.  
>It is almost always word final, and preceeded by <e>, <ee> or <eee>.

Another piece of evidence for "stroke harmony". <e> is curved,  <i> is
straight.

Curved glyphs strongly tend to occur next to curved glyphs, straight
ones (such as <i>) next to glyphs starting with a straight stroke.

>> In essence Grove proposes that EVA approach misanalyzes the glyph level of
>> the Voynichese script, but not looking hard enough at the way in which the
>> graphs are patterned.  It stops short, fooled by the lack of connections
>> in some cases.  

>I am not sure it "misanalyzes" because the purpose of it was not the analysis, 
>but to help transcription. The "final" alphabet is still open to debate. This 
>has been covered too many times in relation to other character groups: 
>whether <sh> is <c'h>, <qo> should be a single character, etc. so I will not 
>go into that again -- that is what mail archives are for.  :-)

Yes. Just like English "sh". It's one sound, not two. As for German
"sch"....



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