RE: VMs: Re: word length counts

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David R. Jones wrote:

> > The Enochian alphabet of Dee and Kelly survives on
> > a 21 character alphabet.
> 
> This is not quite accurate in my view.  There are 21
> glyphs in the Enochian
> alphabet, but the glyph for "i" (gon) doubles for
> "i" and "y", bringing the
> represented alphabet to 22.  

It depends on what you're counting. If, like
in the VMs, you're counting shapes (glyphs) then
it doesn't matter which one doubles for which other
ones. In the VMs we wouldn't even know.

I wouldn't deduce too much from the alphabet size.
It's in the right ballpark.
An illiterate person might well decide to use not
more than 20 characters of the alphabet, by
using some basic substitutions. Take modern Greek,
which has a 24-character alphabet. Writing it
phonetically, it can be reduced quite a lot.

Cheers, Rene

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