Interesting Vwords - those pesky 4o vords

[-JKP-]

I am not convinced that there is meaning behind the VMS text, or that it's natural language or has any linguistic significance, but I'm keeping an open mind because someone spent a lot of time creating it and it's clearly not random text. So, I try to look for patterns that reveal how it was constructed.

While looking through the text, I noticed this interesting contrast...



Each of these is a unique vord, with the exception of keeey which occurs twice:


Plant 5r          Plant 49r         Plant 50v       Plant 38v         Folio 116r    Sagittarius
----------         ------------        ---------          -----------         --------------  --------------
qoykeeey     oykeeey     ykeeey      keeey    >   keeey    eeey


It looks exciting if viewed as a deliberate pattern, possibly a "connector" between folios, but... is it?


In contrast, another 4o vord behaves like this:

275 times     87 times       50 times    2 times     2 times     106 times
-------------     -----------      -----------   ---------     ----------    -------------
qokeedy     okeedy     keedy     eedy     edy       dy


Superficially, qoykeeey and qokeedy appear similar, but they behave very differently. The first (qoykeeey) is a unique vord that breaks down into more unique vords by removing the first letter. One might almost suspect a system of pointers, as are used in programming languages to connect data in different places. In contrast, the second (qokeedy) is common, and breaks down into additional vords that are not unique.

So it's not as simple as looking at unique vords with morphological similarities (length, glyphs) to see if they have a connecting function. Might there be a linguistic explanation?


In linguistic terms, there are situations that might explain the first pattern. For example, in English, the sequence  nascent > ascent > scent > cent resembles the first set of Vwords. They are all words in their own right, and don't necessarily have to have any relationship to one other in terms of meaning—only the letter patterns are similar.

IF (this is a big "if") qoykeeey and qokeedy are linguistic and IF (this is an even bigger "if" and one of which I am very skeptical) the VMS were a substitution code, then one could look for patterns in a variety of languages where some letter combinations are rare (as in the first example) and others are common (as in the second) in terms of breaking down into viable words if the leading letter is dropped.


I'm not sure how fruitful this line of investigation would be. I see the ok "prefix" as far too common to mesh with natural language patterns, but I decided to post it anyway because a pattern of patterns, studied over time, might lead to other insights.