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VMs: RE: languages
Dear Don,
I purchased rosetta stone about three or four years ago to help with Voynich research. The program looks exellent and I am told Wycliffe Bible translators use it with good results. They are tops in the field of description and analysis of unkown languages. The problems I encountered using the Rosetta problem are the following:
1. The Voynichese letters are not defined and are not defined as Latin letters which could be used in the program.
2. No consensus exists for the part of speech of a Voynichese word. Even in the cases where thus and such partilce is defined or described e.g. "89" or "dy" no one hazards a guess as to whether the root to which it is attached is a noun, adjective or verb.
3. The language is not described or defined. E.g an agglutinizing language not entirely dissimilar to Proto-Korean.
4. No hint of possible meaning or reference to a citation in a standard dictionary is available.
In the absence of letters, parts of speech, meanings, etc one is left with mysterious entries on blank cards with empty glosses which obviates any particular use for Rosetta Stone.
I believe it is necessary to posit values for the Voynichese letters and then search for a language in which the combinations conform to the grammar and can be located in a standard dictionary. If the entries identified can be related to the illustrations in some fashion, then that could be considered confirmation that the values posited are valid.
Feel free to comment on my logic if you think any of this is worthwhile or has missed some point.
Jim Comegys
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> From: Don Latham
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> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:46 AM
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> Clocks being one of my interests, ran across this website by serendipity:
> http://www.rosettaproject.org/live
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> language comparison.
> Don
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> Dr. Don Latham
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