Re: VMs: Welsh/Cornish?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

24/01/2005 9:46:18 PM, jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Was this already discussed on list?

Not that I remember.

>   http://hometown.aol.com/arqy0plex/index.html

He is trying to fit Welsh into Voynichese (or
squeeze Welsh out of it) and is already reduced 
to having single Voynich letters encode digraphs
and even trigraphs like "ry" and "ryd".

A weird sort of Welsh too. He gives <q> as the
article "y". But he also gives <o> as "o".
The VMS then would have an extraordinarily high
proportion of nouns starting with "o"--about
99%. Next, "y" never occurs before a word
starting with a vowel. Another form of the
article, "yr", is used instead. So <qo> should
not occur at all.

Need I say more?

All right, just a little more.

<in> is "n" and <iin> is "m".

Consequence: no Welsh word (at least in
the VMS) starts with "n" nor "m". Just
like Levitov's "Dutch". 

Nonsense not even worth the Web space it 
occupies and, let's face it, nowadays Web 
space is *cheap*


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