Re: VMs: ... speculating with "dairol"

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

23/02/2005 10:16:42 PM, Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>	Yes.  There's no need to speculate, though.  Gabriel 
>invented EVA, ask him!

So he wrote the VMs in a previous life.

And so did I, since I invented Frogguy.

Hey! That is why Currier identified two different
languages! One is Gabriel's, the other is mine.
Pity I cannot remember which is which (it was a
long time ago...). Gabriel, do _you_ remember?

>> In fact, the EVA
>> transcription is perhaps a bit too seductively "pronounceable" to be quite
>> safe!

I shouldn't stick my neck out like this, but I believe that
EVA <ol> is a single vowel, "ou" as pronounced in French, Greek 
and even... Armenian. I have been through that in detail years
ago.

>	More generally, the VMs most likely contains digraphs;

Yes, again, I am persuaded that EVA <ee> is another way of
writing EVA <a>  

>>>My questions are: Can the fact that EVA is somewhat pronounceable tell
>>>us anything helpful at all about Voynichese? 

In my view, that _if_ it is a cipher, it is a simple-substitution
cipher.

>Remember 
>too that scripts may contain logographs or symbols for 
>several phonemes, as Egyptian hieroglyphic did.

Too few different glyphs in the VMs for that.



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