08-05-2016, 01:29 PM
After this discussion it occurred to me that some of the VMS properties might be better explainable if one considers the possibility of the words having been written backwards (after the first step of encoding and/or abbreviation). For example, many paragraphs start with the small set of gallows symbols. But if the first word of a paragraph is written actually backwards, then the gallows represent word endings - probably in abbreviated form, and the typical word endings - especially for words not inflected - are possibly not that many in number.
Just an idea.
Just an idea.