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

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> [...]  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,

This is all perfectly correct, and it is useful to
remind all that in the Eva transcription alphabet,
the characters c, e, and h all essentially refer
to the same letter that looks like a "c", but
indicate how it is connected to the next or the
preceding character.
Eva-e is a stand-alone "c".
Eva-c is the same but has a bar at the top connecting
it forward to something. There are also a 
few stand-alone characters in the VMs that look 
like this.
Eva-h is like "e", but has a bar at the top connecting
it back to the previous character.
Thus we have Eva-ch which differs from Eva-ee in
that they are connected at the top. Most people
agree that Eva-ch is really one letter, but for
Eva-ee it is not so clear (though it could well be).
Note that the two "c"s of Eva-ee are often 
written closer together than those of Eva-ch,
FWIW.
The c-character that connects both to left and
right is part of ligatures, and should be written
as Eva-H, a capital, or inside parentheses:
Eva-(chh).

I hope that this clarifies.

Cheers, Rene
 


		
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