Re: VMs: Latin abbreviations

["Matthew Platts" <mdp114@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, and there are many ways to create meanings from bits of the VMS that
are convincing to gullible minds. For instance, the 'spare' letters on
f116v, 'ton ola te taer cerc' are anagrammatical of 'a traccerete lo not',
which, if you give it a bit of creative license, might be construed to mean
'you will not trace'. Meaningful? Or mindless coincidence? I'd go with the
coincidence.

> > I do not think it is obvious. It may be to you because you wrote it, but
if
> > you did not write it, you have no way of proving that it does not say:
> > "and then three were awards". So what is reversible to you may not be to
> > anybody else. You knew the contents, the rest don't.
> >
> > I would suggest that you have a look at Cappelli to understand the
different
> > types of abbreviations there are. (if you can read Italian, there is a
full
> > chapter on this in the dictionary).
> > The great majority of abbreviations are not single vowel deletions.
> > I am not saying that the vms is written this way, but if this is the
case, the
> > chances of reading it are very small.


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