Re: VMs: Rohonczi Codex

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Having looked some more at the RC, it feels more and more to me like a 
curious religious shorthand written right-to-left - but the question of 
whether it also has a cipher component is still open. Its varied use of 
dots (around individual letters) is intriguing, but probably systematic. 
Many apparently text-like words recur between pages. The double diagonal 
dash does indeed seem to function like a (page-left) line-end hyphen. Ger's 
matched sequences are extraordinarily suggestive of all this, but what is 
that curious "oil-can" shape inserted at the (left) end of the third 
green-highlighted line on his page? It simply has to be a null, right? But 
if so, surely that means that the RC does indeed have a cipher component?

Regardless, it still "feels" more like shorthand-accessorised, L-R mirrored 
language than a cipher per se: but perhaps (like mono-alphabetic takes on 
Voynichese) this is only scraping away at a superficial layer designed to 
distract - either way, I guess it's probably far too early to say. I think 
we should simply get an English-language Rohonczi list going to discuss RC 
transcription issues (etc) there, and see where it all goes.

Jim G: could I persuade you to set up a rohonczi-list@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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