06-02-2018, 10:12 AM
(06-02-2018, 09:35 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.True, the VM's relatively huge corpus should allow for easier identification of what's going on, and the fact that we still haven't been able to do that is an argument (not proof) in favor of meaninglessness.
But as you say, we can actually identify structure and spelling rules. This suggests that a real writing system is in place, but it obscures any underlying language. This could be because of our ignorance, or because of intentional obscurity, or because the writing system was flawed.
That we can identify structure and spelling rules only means that there is a system behind the VMS. We have to identify the spelling rules to reconstruct the system. Only then we will know if the script was designed to represent language or something else.
I have tried to identify the spelling rules and the relations between words in my paper from 2014 (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). If you know the rules the system is very simple.