Dairol/Clairol (Re: VMs: ... speculating with "dairal_dhairal")

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 mesinik@xxxxxx wrote:
> Jacques told (I am afraid, not very seriously), he saw the word (written in
> fluent "humanist hand") outside the ring as "clairol"

We're a bit off topic, but this does bear on issues in interpreting
script.  I know of a song entitled in different places "Volcano Juke" and
"Volcano Juice."  I assume "k" = "ic," though I don't know which reading
is correct.  By chance both make a sort of sense and I'm not in a position
to ask the composer.  In a more exotic instance, I know of an American
surname in which French c-cedille has been rendered ch.  I believe the h
represents the cedille, which has strayed from its moorings.  In fact,
this is a natural process in the development of scripts.  Diacritics are
often reduced and subordinated independent characters - in effect a
productive pattern of ligaturization.

It has occurred to me to wonder if the Voynich script was deliberately
designed to yield characters reminiscent of Latinate characters and
Latinate abbreviatory symbols, but arising in different ways, the idea
being to mislead an uninitiated decypherer into false hypotheses - as if
the decypherer were instinctively led into attacking "in tofal sehypot
heses."

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