(25-07-2017, 09:11 PM)Ruby Novacna wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(24-07-2017, 10:11 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.orol dair does not bring anything immediately.
These words can simply mean "observer" or "eyewitness" in ancient Greek, if we read "ol" as "a".
The Greek language has many short words, so it's not difficult to fit Greek words to VMS words if you pick out VMS words here and there. This can also be done quite easily with a few other languages, and has been done with other languages by a number of people.
However, there is no way to know if the interpretation is correct unless a chunk of words, that are meaningful in context with each other, can be interpreted together.
You have to look at where else in the manuscript they occur, how frequently they occur, and whether the word-tokens in the rest of the manuscript that are next to them make linguistic sense.
I can find many, many Greek words in the VMS, also many Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Latin, and Baltic-language words, if I cherry pick them here and there. I can find whole phrases in some languages.
But then one has to explain why a certain "word" occurs 3,342 times when it is not usually a common word in that language, or why another only occurs 20 times when it IS a common word in that language. One also has to explain why two "words" that don't make sense together are next to each other AND why the substitution system works with one or two words, but not with words nearby them on the page (as in a group of labels, for example).