01-03-2018, 09:40 AM
Well, I watched the video and they are proposing a fairly simple substitution code, which is the most common form of VMS "solution".
Yes, sorry, Emma, I worded that really badly. I should have said that agglutinative languages interest me the most in terms of structure (vis-a-vis the VMS). The languages that particularly intrigue me are the Turkic, Berber, and Persian language groups (for a variety of reasons).
But regardless of the language, I still think there are fundamental problems with substitution codes. I tried copying the characters from the video (I got most of them), but there are some gaps and, of course, I need to follow the logic through to see if there's anything in their idea that's different from the many other substitution-code attempts and also to see how many leaps they made to get from repetitive word clusters that comprise so much of the VMS to the "translation" they showed on the screen.
Yes, sorry, Emma, I worded that really badly. I should have said that agglutinative languages interest me the most in terms of structure (vis-a-vis the VMS). The languages that particularly intrigue me are the Turkic, Berber, and Persian language groups (for a variety of reasons).
But regardless of the language, I still think there are fundamental problems with substitution codes. I tried copying the characters from the video (I got most of them), but there are some gaps and, of course, I need to follow the logic through to see if there's anything in their idea that's different from the many other substitution-code attempts and also to see how many leaps they made to get from repetitive word clusters that comprise so much of the VMS to the "translation" they showed on the screen.