Re: what makes a con-script a Con-Script?

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:31:40 -0600, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:

> Hmm... If you take Latin as an example, it could already happen: u and i
> in Latin have both consonantal and vocalic values (so something like
> /wuwuwu/ would write |uuuuuu|), and indeed numeric ones as well
> (|iiiiiiiii| could represent "9", though in that case |ix| would be
> likelier).
Add to that, of course (though I don't recall the typography in the CS --
every time I try to remember it, I get flashes of Voynich, which while
entertaining is not helpful), the case of words like "minimum", which in
the right medieval hand were basically a sequence of vertical strokes (in
the case of "minimum", 15). Something somewhat equivalent to that might be
going on.

OTOH, I also think the use of letters as tallies is a plausible situation
for CS.



Paul

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