Re: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

29/08/2003 11:42:07 PM, illumin8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Far better for a transcription that actually LOOKS like the VMs - No. I
>think that honor goes to Frogguy.


Actually, I am working on a transcription of the Easter Island
hieroglyphs that looks like the hieroglyphs themselves. Of course,
it's impossible to cater for all the hieroglyphs. I have about
figured out how to transcribe most of the anthropomorphic and
zoomorphic hieroglyps. And this brings me to...

>Far better for a transcription that
>describes linkages

The current system (not mine) for those hieroglyphs has a series of "linkages".
I prefer to call them operators. For instance, a hyphen between two
transliterated signs means that they are juxtaposed. A dot that
they are fused. A colon that they are stacked, one above the other.

In my system, what is currently represented as 200 (a code which
says very little about what the sign looks like) would be "iitii"
and 300 would be "iieii". The five elements are: left leg,
left arm, head, right leg, right arm. So that in my system
you can tell that 200 and 300 differ only by the head ("iitii"
vs "iieii").

You can see a list of those signs there:
http://www.rongorongo.org/signs/1.html

But in this particular case, "iitii" and "iieii" lack the "linkages"
because the editor I am working on assumes that an uninterrupted sequence
of five or more letters constitutes a single sign, and it works out
the linkages accordingly.


>If I transcribed the
>English "d" as "c+l" (counterclockwise curve + straight ascender) I
>would only be wrong if I were trying to pronounce it versus trying to
>describe the shape.

Using the current Easter Island transliteration system, "d" would be "c.l"
whereas "cl" would be "c-l" (and c-cedilla would be something like "c:,"
or "c:?")



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