Re: VMs: Is it a human language? (was Moot points, getting long)

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 August 2004 01:45, Koontz John E wrote:
> Gabriel Landini's example of qu plus certain vowels in Spanish is a bit
> more complex.  It is an orthographic artifact.  Latin contrasts c + all
> vowels, in which c represents a k sound, with qu + all vowels (but u?), in

"reliquum, -qua, -qui" means "remainder, -s, -'s".

> Note that the c and z spelings in the second collumn of the second group
> have theta, not s, in, e.g., Castillian Spanish.  I can't think of a case
> of zu at the moment, but my Spanish is pretty limited.

zumo azul

> I'll have to reserve judgement on this.  Voynichese is undoubtedly weird.
> A sequence like Rugg's example of "qokedy qokedy dal qokedy qokedy"
> doesn't sound very natural, however it might actually be pronounced.  On
> the other hand, neither does "Come-a come-a down dooby doo down down," or
> however that's spelled, and it's been pointed out that we can't tell the
> difference between words and numbers, on the assumption that the text
> contains both.

It might be that "qokedy qokedy" and "qokedy" are two distinct words which 
happen to both occur on that page. To give an example in Tok Pisin, "i gat 
planti sipsip longlong long dispela sip" means "there are many crazy sheep on 
this ship".

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
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