Re: Vinca script, cross bar angle - Ki Ri Ke


Franz Gnaedinger <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter T. Daniels wrote:

I was writing in English, not German. I didn't mention Ziffern.

English cipher, deciphering. 1 2 3 ... are ciphers.

The particular meaning of the English word "cipher" you keep
going on about, is only one out of _ten_ possible meanings.

"deciphering" or "decyphering" often means something like
"decrypting" and not necessarily to do with anything numeric.

<one two three> or <eins zwei drei> is writing. <1 2 3> is ideography.
Knots in quipus are the latter, not the former.

1 2 3 are abbreviations of one two three.

They are not abbreviations of anything, they are what they are,
i.e. numbers, while <one two three> are words.


This time your mind wandered after less than a line and a half -- years
have nothing to do with it.

I follow ideas, I don't live in the cage of your categories
and classifications. When I begin a message you think:
aha, now he is in this category. And a couple of lines
later you see me in another of your categories, and you
say: his mind wandered off. Niot at all. Your categories
and classifications have no hold over me, they are
imaginary walls, I walk through them, but not off.

I wish, I really wish I knew how to do that too.... :-)
pjk

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