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

Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> 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.
In my mother's handwriting, "minimum" is 15 connected vertical strokes with two
dots above.

                                                                Andreas