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

[MarcoP]

The question was how do you resolve the problem of there not being enough glyphs to encode all the other sounds if you use three glyphs for one sound-family. The VMS's character set is restrained to begin with. Use three-for-one and it becomes even more restrained. 

I am sorry, JKP. I thought you asked a question "to all of us" and I did my best to reply. The question seemed to be if we believe that the VMS is a one-to-one substitution code. My poor English, I guess.

Be patient, but I need clarification also on the sentence above. The meaning of "all the other sounds" is unclear to me. Do you think there is a universal set of sounds common to all languages? Or maybe you have a specific idea about which language corresponds to the script? I don't know which language it is, so I don't know which are all the sounds of that language. 

As Stephen wrote in point 2.2 of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., if Voynichese makes use of digraphs and trigraphs, it seems easy to accommodate at least 20 more sounds in addition to the two possible r-sounds. I think that the ancient Latin alphabet had 23 letters and 3 of them corresponded to hard-c (C, K, Q)?