VMs: Re: RE: languages

["john stojko" <oko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

Go to the following site
http://home.att.net/~oko/home.htm
to check your rosetta stone program.
You will find alphabet in 'cipher' section.

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: 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
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Don Latham
> > Reply To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:46 AM
> > To: voynich
> > Subject: VMs: languages
> >
> > Clocks being one of my interests, ran across this website by
serendipity:
> > http://www.rosettaproject.org/live
> >
> > language comparison.
> > Don
> >
> > Dr. Don Latham
> > Six Mile Systems/lightning Forensics
> > PO Box 460134  (Mail)
> > 17850 Six Mile Road (Street)
> > Huson, MT, 59846
> > 406-626-4304
> > djl@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.sixmilesystems.com
> > http://www.lightningforensics.com
> >
> >
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