Sam, I'm not discounting the possibility of natural language, but I am skeptical. Three things would have to be seriously examined (or manipulated) for this to work like natural language... the spaces have to be taken with a grain of salt. If the spaces are not literal, then there appear to be nulls. Even after assigning nulls (and there are some good candidates), and taking a flexible approach to the spaces, there are still positional constraints that are unique to the VMS.
I'm not saying the text is meaningless. In fact, I think there may be something there. But it is not structured like natural language. Inserting vowel-like glyphs at regular intervals does not guarantee they are vowels and I think one of the difficulties for many people is thinking of them as shapes rather than vowels until their actual function is demonstrated.
I'm not saying the text is meaningless. In fact, I think there may be something there. But it is not structured like natural language. Inserting vowel-like glyphs at regular intervals does not guarantee they are vowels and I think one of the difficulties for many people is thinking of them as shapes rather than vowels until their actual function is demonstrated.