Rob, take a look at searcher's (Yulia May's) efforts to wrestle the VMS into Latin (taking into consideration common Latin abbreviations).
Of all the people who have tried it (and posted their solutions), I think this is the most honest and educated attempt:
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Even if the result doesn't work as good Latin, it's very revealing...
Reading through it makes very clear how repetitive and awkward the combinations of glyphs are in the VMS in relation to Latin (or any language). This is not searcher's fault, this is a property of the VMS text that many "solvers" fail to acknowledge (e.g., Cheshire, Lockerby, and others).
Paul Weiler's idea is not new or unusual. He's walking down the same path as searcher, but Weiler has less knowledge of Latin and doesn't have enough practical knowledge of scribal conventions to write about them yet.
Many people who are familiar with Latin scribal conventions (and its context-sensitive nature) have tried to interpret the VMS as Latin, as have numerous people who don't understand Latin very well (or at all).
Of all the people who have tried it (and posted their solutions), I think this is the most honest and educated attempt:
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Even if the result doesn't work as good Latin, it's very revealing...
Reading through it makes very clear how repetitive and awkward the combinations of glyphs are in the VMS in relation to Latin (or any language). This is not searcher's fault, this is a property of the VMS text that many "solvers" fail to acknowledge (e.g., Cheshire, Lockerby, and others).
Paul Weiler's idea is not new or unusual. He's walking down the same path as searcher, but Weiler has less knowledge of Latin and doesn't have enough practical knowledge of scribal conventions to write about them yet.
Many people who are familiar with Latin scribal conventions (and its context-sensitive nature) have tried to interpret the VMS as Latin, as have numerous people who don't understand Latin very well (or at all).