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I did my own amateur analysis of it once. My idea was to try and use line breaks to derive some information about how words might be delineated. On a lot of th
by cedws 2y ago
I did my own amateur analysis of it once. My idea was to try and use line breaks to derive some information about how words might be delineated.
On a lot of the pages, the text is highly compressed against the illustrations. If you’re writing English you would find this hard to do, because you would need to insert a line break before a word if it’s too long. I couldn’t find any examples where the text overlapped the illustrations. That suggests to me that words are either very short, or graphemes themselves are words. Or, that the text is a meaningless hoax, because it doesn’t adhere to any rules and can be squashed against the illustrations easily.
- addaon 2y agoOr, it's a scriptio continua like classical greek and latin, and line breaks are permitted in the middle of words.
- rasz 2y agoIts doable http://tom7.org/bovex/ http://tom7.org/bovex/
- singularity2001 2y agoshort words would be consistent with the serious analysis that the language has to be tonal, Which rules out all European languages and Mostly leaves meso American or sinitic languages; which would be possible as an extra chapter to il millione, the travel report of Marco Polo, albeit reproduced and illustrated in a European context and style