RE: VMs: Finding_02

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

> > ...to be more precise, the <ain aiin aiiin> pattern
> > seems to me most likely
> > to be some form of steganographic Roman numerals: and
> > as I don't see the
> > evidence for the VMS' being an obviously
> > mono-alphabetic cipher, I don't
> > buy into Teague numbering either.
>
> You keep poking holes in my heart and ask me not to bleed! :-)
> God I love it!!!!

Errrrm... I do my best, I think? :-9

> Seriously..... never mind... I just can't get serious about this.
> Every time I look at a post with these strings attached, <dain
> daiin daiiin>, this looks seriously impressive.  And when we can
> narrow our discussion down to <ain aiin aiiin>, well that's even
> more impressive.  Any strings the length of these characters
> *must* be significant, yes?

The EVA string length has no significance in my mind. I'm simply looking at 
the structure of a set of (perhaps morphologically related) shapes and 
wondering (in no particular order):-
- "what function could they perform?"
- "why were they necessary?"
- "what could they mean?"

In the absence of any definitive answers, I'm sure my (current) hypothesis 
is neither better nor worse than anyone else's.

> My question would be - if you are NOT separating the strokes in
> dain, daiin, daiiin, dumass, then how do these reflect roman
> numerals any better than say, 89, oe, os, oy as word endings?

I refer the honourable gentleman to my three questions above. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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