A key to understand the VMS

[ReneZ]

SamG
"Yes, the properties of the VMS text are like those of an unencrypted natural language text, and cannot be explained in any other way that is known and can be demonstrated."

I prefer to think of it as having properties that make it LOOK like unencrypted natural language (Latin, to be exact), especially in the way a, o, and Latin shapes are incorporated into the text.

And interestingly enough, these glyphs that resemble vowels in the Roman alphabet also seem to behave as vowels, in that they occur in every word and delimit groups of 1-2 consonants.  To me that suggests an obvious explanation: they are vowels.

Suggesting that some symbols represent vowels assumes that the symbols represent either letters or sounds.
Both are natural assumptions, but I have very severe doubts about them.

The following symbols:  q  f  p  m  y   are demonstrably not to be identified with letters.
That's five out of (say) 25. How confident can one be that the others are?
And even if they are, what to make of a mixture of letters and non-letters?