Re: Sukhotin's algorithm etc

[Mark Perakh <perakh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Gabriel, thanks for the clarification. I see that the characters in
your meiling were not the Currier's symbols. I looked at your site and
found these six characters.  Now I would like to convert them into
Currier's characters. Is there anywhere a table showing the juxtaposition
of Currier's characters to those in your table?  Mark.

Gabriel Landini wrote:

> On 19 Jan 2001, at 8:25, Mark Perakh wrote:
>
> > I would like to clarify what your
> > table says. You list the following symbols as representing vowels in
> > VMS in Currier's rendition: o,y,a,e,g,u.  Shall I understand that the
> > listed symbols are the letters of Currier's alphabet?
>
> Please disregard the email table since the font was lost in the
> making of my message. Some are eva and some not. Instead look
> directly into this file:
>
> http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/sukhotin.gif
>
> and
>
> http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/
>
> should be the evmt home page. The file for the DOS executable is
> vfq.zip and there is a link to it in the "links" section.
>
> > Except for g they are also English vowels, which seems to be an odd
> > coincidence whose probability must be rather small.
>
> Well, as far as I remember, Rene chose the eva characters
> according to the similarity to the roman alphabet (what they look
> like) and so when forming words, it would be easy to remember as
> it creates something arbitrarily pronouceable which in turn is easier
> to transcribe than the other alphabets. Rene, please correct me if
> wrong.
>
> Cheers
> Gabriel