Quote:Rene Wrote:
Quote:-JKP- Wrote: Gavin, you should take a look at Monica's transliterations and translations. Whether or not you agree with them, they are consistent and the transliterations are repeatable by anyone who pays attention to how she is doing it.
While this seems to be off-topic in this thread, it also seems important enough.
The above is not at all my understanding of Monicas translations...[
To be continued elsewhere, yes, but please note that I only said the "transliterations" are repeatable. I was careful how I worded it.
I did not say the translations are repeatable (although, in fact, a reasonable percentage of the translations are repeatable, more than many proposed "solutions").
I worked through several pages of Monica's texts and I got very similar results. Even if one doesn't agree with it on every point, or on some of the fine points, it's a rational effort.
My main problem with it is not Monica's method, which she follows pretty consistently, but with the frequency distribution of VMS letter positions, which diverge from Semitic languages to a significant degree. This difference needs to be addressed.