Re: VMs: Strange pattern (key?)

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

"How could someone have devised a language system (whether ciphered or not) without a repeatable template to work to?"

Maybe they just wanted to drive future generations nuts <grin>

I think the "language" (or the cypher) grew as the Voy progressed.  As far as language goes the later pages (ie 103r+) are the best ones to go by.  That is, IMHO.




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/17/03 19:15 PM >>>
Hi Jeff & Larry,

> >>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 11/16/03 02:49PM >>>
>Observe the following taken from the VMS. Whenever a word begins with the T
>glyph it is followed shortly by a word with the P glyph. Either on the same
>line or at some point shortly after. Could be the next page even.
>Let's look at these words in isolation:
>tsheos
>pcheol
>tsheoarom
>pcheoldom
>I cannot account for this effect being merely a product
>of shorthand or a verbose cipher. These words are definately linked.

Sorry Jeff, but this is a pretty thin-looking claim. Really, you'd need to 
find more than two pairs of words with something vaguely in common to claim 
a VMs-related pattern of some sort. :-(

At 14:25 17/11/2003 -0500, Larry Roux wrote:
>I am fairly certain that a leading "p" (ie in the left column) is a 
>paragraph start marker and a leading "t" is a sentence marker.

Well... look at (for example) f26v and tell me what you make of that. f26r 
also displays both the "paragraph-initial" property and the "all kinds of 
monkey business on the top line of a page" property. Every time you devise 
a model for how the VMs works, you'll immediately find plenty of pages 
which it fails to fit - but why is that? How can that be? How could someone 
have devised a language system (whether ciphered or not) without a 
repeatable template to work to?

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

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