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

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

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Brian Tawney wrote:
> Alas, my transcription of the text must be unorthodox, or there must be
> something I don't understand about it.  I count over 1000 different words
> that have an /h/ not preceded by a /c/,  which occur (in total) over 4000
> times.  For example, ...

> I also find 91 words that have /c/ not followed by /h/ (which is admittedly
> a discouraging number).  For example, ...

They're slightly independent, h moreso than c.  I'm not sure what would
distinguish an e from a c other than standing before a gallows perhaps.
It appears to me, however, that both c and h sometimes occur next to an
"infixed" gallows without the other appearing, and that h occurs in other
contexts, too, including following itself.  On the whole, however, h
follows c and s, which looks like c/e with something like the same
flourish attached to i to form r.  H itself looks like a c with a leftward
extending top stroke.  I suppose you could see that as contextually rather
like one of the flourishes (final strokes of jlmnr).  I think that ch is
reasonably distinct from ee, which I think can occur in some similar
contexts.

The EVA transcription alphabet is a major convenience, but it's probably
wise not to be too influenced by its choice of transcription letters,
particularly in deciding what is vowel or consonant (or anything else),
and not even in deciding what is a significant and independent
orthographic element - what Jaques Guy suggests calling a grapheme.
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