VMs: RE: The Key -- [case against "qo"]

["John Grove" <4groves@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>I might later challenge "dy" as a composite. One approach might be to
find which method leaves the least number of singletons and which has
fewer exceptions to its rule.

	My personal favourite view of 'dy' (whether composite or not) is that it
'da + end ligatures' are the same thing as the original 'dy' construct with
a different ending... therefore 'dy' is related to 'd@', 'dan', 'dain',
'daiin', 'daiiin'. Take a look at a few of the sample words with 'a+ending
ligatures' and change everything including the 'a' back to a 'y' and
surpise -- a valid VMS word appears... (of course, this could be taken
further - by saying any 'a'+ending is a 'y')

qo.kshodaiin
q-o-k-sh-o-d-ai-in  ?=? q-ok-shody + ending

chodain   ?=? chody + ending
otaiin    ?=? oty + ending          etc...
otam	    ?=? oty + ending + end of line

	This obviously messes up lots of transcriptions by reducing everything to a
few 'words' and insinuates that half the letters don't really exist as
letters by themselves (all the 'i' stroke ones).

	otar ?=? oty + r-ligature extension
	dar  ?=? dy + r-ligature extension

	If we followed this thinking there would be so few root words to work with
wouldn't there. I think if there is a relation between two adjacent
characters that it doesn't necessarily point to a verbose cipher, but
perhaps toward a natural consonant vowel structure (I know - it can't be a
simple substitution). However, the 'vowels' if enciphered may be from a
separate and limited set of vowel 'rows/columns' while the 'consonants'
align with another table... Of course, I'm not entirely convinced cipher
really plays a role. I certainly don't profess to be on the right track,
because I couldn't possibly know that I was even if it were true. There are
lots of clues for any theory - and as Nick has said, we do tend to see
patterns we want to see. Barbara recently noticed the similarity to the
plumes and ligatures and noted that EVA has tended to over-simplify the
transliteration in some cases... variations of 'sh' for example. These
little devils are well known, but very hard to catalogue because they are
far too subtle and perhaps inconsistent to identify even close to
accurately. There is also a case for a 'd' that is upright compared to one
that is leaning 45 degrees to the right - but are these just the result of
over-analysis of hand-writing, or indeed variations of a character that make
them a whole new character.

	Again, EVA does help us communicate - everybody has a general 'visual' of
the above EVA explanations without using a specialized font in my email -
but this doesn't mean that the 'd' in every word is always a 'd'... of
course - that's part of the fun isn't it. Make some assumptions and chase
the theory for a while and see if anything comes out of it.

	John.






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