Re: VMs: 1-2-3 eliminate me!

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2/24/03 10:08:34 AM, Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>EVA			32000+		o,c,a,y,n,e,s,g
>CURVA			31582		o,y,a,e,Ee,p,g
>GAVA			24508		o,y,a,e,Ee,g
>FSG			26967		o,y,a,e,Z,g,u
>Currier			26134		o,y,a,e,g,u
>Frogguy			32000+		e,o,a,y,p,n,j,g

I'm sure you stuffed up there, Gabriel: there is no
<y> that I remember of in Frogguy, and that EVA <c> (the
second letter), shouldn't that be <e>? And Frogguy <e>
(first letter) <c>?

The above results show that, in all transcriptions, 
EVA <o>, <e>, <a>, and <y> come out as vowels.

As for p and j coming out as vowels in Frogguy, remember
that they are the right halves of gallows. Since a gallows
is very often preceded by <o>, a vowel, the left half
is identified as a consonant, the right half as a vowel.

Somewhere in the archives there are two or three articles
where I argue, on distributional evidence that EVA <a> = <ee> = <y>.

When, about the same time, I replaced every occurrence of 
EVA <ol> (Frogguy <ox>) by a new character, that character
came out as a vowel. That made me think that <l> = "u".

BTW, did you know that, in Armenian, "u" (which looks like
a iota) is ALWAYS preceded by "o" (which looks like an "n")?

Weird language, Armenian. I can barely believe that it is 
Indo-European, but so I have been taught.
 


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