Re: VMs: Thoughts about Roman numbers in the VMS

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, GC wrote:
> In this sense then, the VMS author did not "invent" the alphabet, rather he
> selected it from a known set of abbreviations and symbols, possibly...

well said ... my opinion is still, it's clearly adapted for some
Turco-Tataric dialect (will you allow me to say "Tataro-Turcic"?).

But - if you walk here and there in the VMS, you can't  see a single Slavic 
(read: Russian) word(root) (and don't even dream of Slavic grammar!).

It means, VMS can't probably be "real stuff" in northern Turco-Tataric 
languages (these are in strong interference with Russian people). As "real 
stuff" could this come maybe from Krimean peninsula or the state of Khasan.
Moscow with it's "little Italy" (i.e. - newbuilt XV century Kremlin) falls 
probably away.

If the VMS is really done by Sergei Kravchinski, then it can't "speak" pure 
native tongues, which he heared in the streets when he was kid ... or he just 
is avoiding the Russian loans ... and this leads us again to the ciphertext ...

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