30-04-2019, 05:20 PM
Weird experience. The first seven pages is largely things I've been saying for years (nothing new there for me).
But in the next part (the correspondence tables), we differ in our assessment of the characters.
The transliteration key that they published is not going to work well for large groups of text. I know the VMS well enough to know which substitutions work and which ones don't. I've tried hundreds of combinations over the years.
Even though some of their correspondences might be correct (and functional for small blocks of text), some of them I'm pretty sure are not, which means it is bound to fall apart for larger blocks (especially contiguous ones).
It's really just a tease. One word and one phrase? That's all?
They should have translated a paragraph (or even a full line). One word and a phrase is not enough to convince me (or anyone credible) that the system works. I can translate dozens (sometimes hundreds) of words and short phrases in a variety of languages, so I know it's not hard to do this. I also know they are not solutions. What is hard and what MUST be done is a larger block of text. If a system WORKS then it will work for at least a few lines (and probably more since the VMS shows a high degree of consistency throughout). So far I haven't seen that demonstrated.
But in the next part (the correspondence tables), we differ in our assessment of the characters.
The transliteration key that they published is not going to work well for large groups of text. I know the VMS well enough to know which substitutions work and which ones don't. I've tried hundreds of combinations over the years.
Even though some of their correspondences might be correct (and functional for small blocks of text), some of them I'm pretty sure are not, which means it is bound to fall apart for larger blocks (especially contiguous ones).
It's really just a tease. One word and one phrase? That's all?
They should have translated a paragraph (or even a full line). One word and a phrase is not enough to convince me (or anyone credible) that the system works. I can translate dozens (sometimes hundreds) of words and short phrases in a variety of languages, so I know it's not hard to do this. I also know they are not solutions. What is hard and what MUST be done is a larger block of text. If a system WORKS then it will work for at least a few lines (and probably more since the VMS shows a high degree of consistency throughout). So far I haven't seen that demonstrated.
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