Re: VMs: Abbreviationes

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your are right. It requires purchase of 2 CDs. This study is not for me 
so I did not check the price. Stolfi has a chart of word pair sequences 
for VMS using a fairly liberal substitution of single letters for EVA 
letter series. Also a chart from an English document for comparison. 
Sorry, I did not record the page URL. I think the real difference will 
show when three- and four-word series are factored in. I also think the 
full EVA alphabet should be used except the rare letters. Also, the iin, 
iiin might best be given a single letter value. Whoever does the work is 
the best judge of that. Whoever proposes to do the work is the best 
judge of whether it might be  worthwhile.

Since we do not *know* what should be consolidated or what a 
consolidated pair or triplet might represent I really do not see any 
need for guessing. Recently, the point was made that the definite 
article could be part of the following word (Stolfi). Many abbreviations 
may have been used. If we quantify what we have first we can better know 
what we are doing with later modifications.

Ciao ........ Knox

Eric wrote:

> I saw this a while back. Doesn't it require some sort
> of subscription?
>
> p.s. I haven't forgotten about the word collocation
> run. Just the usual lots of things going on....

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