VMs: Re: RE: Why is the VMS so hard?

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Grove John@xxxxxxxxxxxx
11 December 2003 02:50
Subject: VMs: RE: Why is the VMS so hard?


> I'm sorry Jeff, but I still don't get why you think this is even close
> to a VMS style of text. It does not follow the VMS structure at all.
You've
> been able to limit the character output to ch, o, r, y, a, series of i's,
c,
> d, k, t, m, sh, e, and l > but the results don't look like Voynichese at
> all.
>
> Take rysyaimmy for example - no where could a double m exist in the VMS
> because
> M's are normally end of line characters only... Doublets are extremely
rare
> in
> the VMS. I don't count i's and e's as doublets because I do believe they
are
> related
> to neighbouring characters and aren't standalone (but that is a personal
> bias of course).
>
> I also don't see any cth or ckh's in your output... and how about those
> weirdo's in
> the VMS like ckhhy (it's not a doublet - but there are two 'h' type
endings
> attached to
> one another). And how to you get an htals (h is always part of a ch, sh,
or
> cth, ckh - and
> is not a standalone character).
>
> John.
>

It is not meant to look like the VMS. That was not the point. First it is
modern English and not a language of the time and so wouldn't fit. If I am
correct the patterns in the VMS are totally due to the underlying language.
Different languages will produce different structures.

No one on this list seems to remotely understand what I am suggesting.

I guess I will have to go it alone for a while.

Jeff


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