[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[MarcoP]

For a long time I sensed resistance to the idea that the VMS might be broken up into components that are not specifically word-related.

Yes, I am aware of my irrational preference for ideas that give some hope of decipherment. We all know of the role of well separated words with a clear context in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mycenaean Linear B.
As I said, seeing that Bakker, Mair and Sproat agree on the fact that the VMS is undecipherable makes me challenge my convictions.
Timm and Schinner's meaningless-text-algorithm seems to be the only solution to have gained some consensus among other researchers. On the other hand, Friedman came to the final hypothesis of an artificial language of the a priori type, suggesting that he believed that the creator(s) could understand the text. I doubt it will ever be possible to decide between meaningless and undecipherable.