Re: AW: Voynichese = Old/unknown/extinct kind of Chinese dialect

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Eric Farnell wrote:

>  It seems to suggest that the gallows and tables are not
> letters but some sort of symbol for something else, they are
> their own class.

In the example which Jim Reeds pointed out in Cappelli, the "gallows-like"
symbols are strictly embellishments - not additional characters (as you can
see from the transcription of the document) - perhaps that is true in the VMS
as well. That could explain why so many paragraphs start with a gallows
character.

Bruce