[split] An interview with Stephen Bax - 1 to 1 substitution discussion

[MarcoP]

To all of you... do you honestly believe that the VMS is a one-to-one substitution code in a natural language?

No, I think that Stephen could be right. The script could be an abjad (some vowel sounds are not written) and some sounds might be encoded using more than one "glyph". In particular, I think there is ample evidence for the second point (e.g. the various e, ee, eee, in, iin, iin sequences). I also don't see any particular reason to a-priori exclude that it could be an abjad.