Re: VMs: Faces at the roots

["JH" <haleyj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne Durden wrote:

If JH for instance identifies a plant name he can read using his method and
it happens to be one of these 52, he can compare how it is used in
cosmo or astro or whatever.  I personally believe it is also somewhat
 useful for ruling in/out parts of speech for romance languages by
 looking at the digraph pairs for the shorter such labels.

I respond:

Firstly I must make it plain that I am neither using EVA or any other
transcription to determine meaning. I am referring to the actual scans.
Which is why it is a total pain in the you know what. The point raised
recently about [ii] and whether connections come into play is a very
important point. IMO it does matter how the scribe wrote them.

To digress a little. Nick's idea of the verbose nature of the system is a
very com{pelling} one (sorry Nick I couldn't resist.) Joking aside, it does
hang together and brings out the groupings that occur most frequently.
This not only increases the information content but when graphed it
produces a nuch smoother curve and eliminates the high end peaks of
EVA. On the downside it can never be a smooth solution in and of itself
and must be part of a multi table cipher. Why? Because as Jorge Stolfi
has shown VMS words have a hilly structure. The mid word peak seems
to suggest this quite strongly. If true then the words that break this rule,
to
my mind, show the scibe being particularly nasty in his choice of
substitutions.

To undigress. This is not the method I am currently exploring. Although
the verbose approach becomes very interesting when an automatic
substitution is employed as very word-like clusters appear quite naturally.

To get back to Wayne's point. I would be very interested in the results of
work on the labels as these will be the most problemmatic to resolve. The
stickiest points are the appearance of (EVA) ot & ok at word starts.

Jeff


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