Re: *****SPAM***** VMs: speculating with "dairal"

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

25/02/2005 12:17:33 PM, mesinik@xxxxxx wrote:

>After all, afaik the Mongolian grammar sometimes uses the ending "iin", final
>"l" means something, too.

Tsk tsk tsk... in the words of the Zen monk Huineng, you are
mistaking your finger for the moon. (Do a Google search:
Huineng finger moon)

EVA <l> is probably a vowel. Nothing to do with our "l",
a voiced lateral, in linguists' jargon.


>So, I think, some mix of Tataric and Mongolian
>dialects could structurally "do" for the VMS-language.

No. The phonotactics of Mongolian do not match
Voynichese at all. Of Chinese, yes, as Jorge Stolfi
has demonstrated to my satisfaction long ago (and
at first I thought he just had to be wrong. But, try
as I may, I could not fault his evidence and his
arguments). Er... "phonotactics"? That is linguist's
jargon. It means the distributional properties of
phonemes in individual languages. For instance,
in Polynesian, a consonant can only be followed
by a vowel, never by another consonant; and no word
or morpheme can end in a consonant. We can analyze
the phonotactics of Voynichese even if we do not
know what the letters are, or mean. That is what
Jorge Stolfi has done. Except that, being a computer
scientist, he did not call it "the phonotactics
of Voynichese".



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