Re: Re: VMs: excessive frequency of doubles...

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Jan wrote:
> okal	opal	otal	 ----     ypal	 ytal
> okar	opar	otar	 ykar     ypar	 ytar
> okol	opol	otol	 ykol     ----   ----
> okor	opor    xxxx	 ----     ----   ytor
>
> Rather interesting, isn't it?

As I understand it the recognition of gender and/or case-number variants
in Linear B was one of the major keys into it for Ventris.  Of course,
given the provenience and the pictures he was pretty sure that he was
dealing with unencrypted accounting information!

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