Re: VMs: Has anyone been down this route before?

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

Well, c is always followed by an h in EVA anyways (well, not really
true, "c" *is* followed by other letters such as y, but those are rare).
 On the other hand, who is certain that "e"s are not "c"s without the h?





Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx

>>> jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/30/04 10:24 PM >>>
30/08/2004 5:49:51 PM, "Brian Tawney" <btawney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In the Qur'an... the most common pair of letters is ['l] (alif-lam).  
This
>stands to reason because this is the Arabic word 'the'.  This pair of
>letters accounts for 5.27% of the text of the Qur'an.
>
>In the VM the most common pair of letters is /ch/.  This pair accounts 
for
>5.74% of the text of the VM.  In addition, /ch/, like ['l], is a very 
common
>prefix.
>
>So...suppose ['l] -> /ch/.

/h/ is always preceded by /c/  with or without intruding
gallows. /c/ is always followed by /h/, again with or 
without intruding gallows. So we can have only:

1. ch
2. c<gallows>h

There are only four gallows.

Arabic rules itself out. Just consider:

bld "town"  'lbld "the town"
mlk "king"  'lmlk "the king"
fls "fils" (one thousandth of a dinar)
klb "dog"   'lklb "the dog"
qlb "heart" 'lqlb "the heart"

Another hypothesis was that /qo/ = the Greek
article "ho". 

Since Google has now discovered the Voynich
archives, you can use it to look for similar
hypotheses. They all led nowhere. Except the
"Chinese theory" which I originally floated as
a joke and which, to my great surprise, has
held out. Just this morning I did a Google
search for it, and learned that I had floated it
on 14 December 1991. Well, I had completed
forgotten, and I was surprised at how old it
was!


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