(11-10-2019, 02:20 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems the thread has turned into brainstorming decipherment ideas, something we have done numberless times.
I think this is a waste. Stephen proposed a specific question that I don't think has ever been discussed and is independent from the possibility of deciphering the text.
As Stephen wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., positional rigidity is not necessarily a problem for pronounceability.
I agree, in general, but the verbal ability and memory of people make them choose and form pronounceable constructions in the limits of their language traditions. We judge by majority of the VMS words which can be easily pronounced, but there are some words that make problems with this. If we change sounds for glyphs in the same proportion, with the aim to find every letter of Latin alphabet, we will get a pronounceable majority of the text again, and again some part of the words will be hard for pronounce. So, is it not a waste?