Re: VMs: Split -ol- pairs...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 04:58 25/05/2004 -0700, Rene wrote:
> In English, 'th' and 'sh' and 'ch' are like
> your verbose pairs. Other languages do have
> one symbol for the corresponding sound (note absence
> of the proper linguistic terms).
>
> However, 'th' and 'sh' can also be split up
> by a space, less so for 'ch'.
>
> It could be as simple as that....

So: if (English) 'th' was the equivalent of (Currier A EVA) "ol", why would 
nearly all "h-" words be preceded by "-t" words?

In this sense, Voynichese (and in particular Currier Language A) seems to 
merge ideas of letter adjacency rules with word adjacency rules (i.e. with 
a single "l-usually-preceded-by-o" rule, operating at both letter level and 
word level): are any languages that sophisticated?

Also: I wonder if there are there any written languages where spaces are 
used more to "beautify" the text than to separate words? If "ol" can have a 
space inserted in the middle, this would seem to be the case in Voynichese 
- and probably more indicative of cipher practice than language use.

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


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