RE: VMs: RE: word length counts - addendum

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

I would bet my bottom dollar bill one of the 2 letter words means "and".  

There is a question. There are methods to determine likely vowels, is there a systematic method for trying to narrow down possible words that mean common things such as "and", "the", etc?  While "the" does not appear in all languages, one would think "and" would be extremely popular in most texts.

There are letter frequency counts.  Is there such a thing as a studt of word frequency counts?







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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx 07/06/03 01:45 AM >>>
Steve,
Here's a top 25 list of two and three letter words, just for laughs.  Most
of these go on to form major elements of common longer words, so they're
worth noting.

http://voynich.info/vgbt/xcrptn/two_letter.jpg

GC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of GC
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 11:27 PM
> To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: VMs: RE: word length counts - addendum
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Here's a link to the standard glyphs taken from the count (not to be
> confused with my page entitled "VGBT Standard Glyph Set" which refers to
> glyphs mapped to standard keyboard keys.)
>
> http://voynich.info/vgbt/xcrptn/standard_glyph.jpg
>
> It should again be noted that these 21 glyphs make up more than 97% of the
> VMS, and another 2% have been considered by Currier and others as nothing
> more than variations on these 21.  I record them separately because the
> diacritics and other features amount to a structured "shorthand" that is
> probably "instructional" in nature.
>
> At the bottom of this image you'll also find the counts for the 24 glyphs
> that represent single words in these quires.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> GC
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of steve ekwall
> > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:21 PM
> > To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: VMs: RE: word length counts - addendum
> >
> >
> > Hi GC & All :-)
> >
> > Hope all USA had a good 4th of July (we did), ps weird WORLD-WIDE
> > "Hacker ATTACK" Due SUNDAY (THIS SUNDAY 7/6/03- Tomorrow) FWIW :-)
> >
> >
> > I'd like to *keep it simple whenever possible* :-)
> >
> > Which 14 glyphs are the "standard" set? Is there a URL for this 14 set
> > as well as the 24 (mentioned below?)
> >
> > While i'm working on a 3 3 9 (set), 14 could help out in posititings,
> > especially if they (the standard 14) include 2 or 4 of the "\2 \\2 or
> > even \\\2 glyphs or (8\\m included)".
> >
> > Thx in advance;
> > -=se=-
> > steve (still in denver) ekwall
> >
> >
> >  Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 01:26:33 -0500
> >  From: GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  Reply-To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >  To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Subject: VMs: RE: word length counts - addendum
> >
> >  In addition, only 24 glyphs represent single-glyph words, and
> of these 24
> >  only 14 are from the "standard" set of glyphs.
> >  GC
> >
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  (snip)
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