VMs: VMs as Numbers / artificial language

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

about the 'gallows' characters:

> In other words, almost all the combinations of:
> 
> (no loops, one loop, two loops) x (no hook, hook) x
> (no bench, bench)
> 
> They could code decimal digits, though I would
> expect a more even distribution
> if so.

Maybe not more even, but one important feature
puts a spanner in the works here: the characters
with only one leg (i.e. those with a hook) only occur
in the first lines of paragraphs. To explain that,
one would need to concoct a fairly complicated
theory, OR, accept that this distinction in shape
is unrelated to the meaning of the character.

On the other hand, I am seeing a lot of
'binary' choices in the VMs words. Let me use
Eva in carets below. A given
word pattern is just about as likely to start with
<o-> as with <qo->, or with <ch-> vs. <sh->,
or contain <k> vs. <t>, or <p> vs <f>, or end
with <-y> vs. <-dy> or <-in> vs. <-iin>
I am not saying that this is part of a code designed
to create binary numbers, or to 'modulate'
a signal onto some 'carrier words' if you will.
But it gives another angle of attack on the structure
of the words that hasn't yet been much explored.
And yes, again it is very reminiscent of encoding
numbers. Many of the arguments that made
Friedman and Tiltman think of an artificial language
could be used in favour of the 'numbers' theory
as well.....

Cheers, Rene  

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