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RE: My thoughts on the VMS - -JKP- - 26-09-2016
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MarcoP wrote:
Hi Thomas,
why should not an inflected agglutinative language be enough to explain this?
From Aeneides Book I (much shorter than the VMS):
qui
quibus
quicquid
quid
quidve
quies
quiescit
quietas
quietem
quietum
quin
quinquaginta
quippe
quirinus
quis
quisquam
quisquis
quo
quocirca
quod
quodcumque
quondam
quoque
quorum
quos
quove
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What distinguishes Voynichese from this list and from the behavior of letters in natural languages is the lack of positional flexibility.
For example...
In Thomas's chart of 4o- vords, EVA-r, EVA-s, EVA-ell, and EVA-n occur only at the ends of vords, never anywhere else. In contrast, in the Latin qu- list, all the letters at the end appear elsewhere in other words in the list.
In the 4o- list, even the EVA-y glyph is almost exclusively at the end (only a couple of exceptions).
If you were playing Voynich SCRABBLE and the letters "4o" were already on the board, in the leftmost position (against the edge), and you were told that eight letters of the alphabet could only be used at the ends of words and five more could only be used in the middle of words, imagine the difficulty of making words that follow natural language patterns.
Also, words like the following Latin words
quinquaginta
quisquam
quisquis
quicquid
quodcumque
quoque
are not possible to construct in the VMS with a 4o- prefix unless some of the spaces are contrived.
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - ThomasCoon - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - -JKP- - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - MarcoP - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - ThomasCoon - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - -JKP- - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - ThomasCoon - 28-09-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - ThomasCoon - 01-10-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - -JKP- - 02-10-2016
RE: My thoughts on the VMS - stellar - 02-10-2016