RE: VMs: Word Endings

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The final stroke in every character?

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Subject: Re: VMs: Word Endings


Hi everyone,

One last thought on <ch>: whatever your position on the VMS, I think you
have to take a view on what the set of diacritic-like marks above the <ch>
is all about. Some possible views (please suggest others) are:-
(a) meaningless
(b) ornamentation
(c) improvised		(local meaning, personal to the encoder)
(d) semi-improvised	(local meaning, part of a shared shorthand)
(e) systematic		(global meaning, like a nomenclature)

Given the deliberateness and clarity of the alphabet, I think anyone not in
the hoax camp can almost certainly exclude (a) and (b): which leaves the
continuum from improvised to systematic.

On balance, I think I'm coming round to (d): and I see abbreviatory
disambiguation as exactly the kind of task a semi-improvised mechanism
would be required to resolve. YMMV, however. :-)

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


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