A case for Gibberish

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Here is some bullet points to ponder before going down the path of a literal translation of the VMS:

1. VMS contains a low use of 1-2 tokens
   
2. NO evidence for punctuation in the VMS whatsoever.
   
3. Tokens repeat geometrically to often compared to languages
   
4. Even in the modern era there is no decryption for the VMS
   
5. If this was an invented language it still should obey a normal language rhythm for token repeats
   
6. otol is a label for a star, plant and a empty pipe
   
7. Lastly what likely would be consonants can be found at times as 1 character tokens
   

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1. only if you take spaces as literal, they may not be
   
2. that's not uncommon for medieval manuscripts
   
3. doesn't matter if it turns out to be a verbose code or multi-glyph characters, then this would be expected to happen. Alternately, there are languages where significantly different concepts are expressed with the exact same spelling (see my blog on Chechen).
   
4. cool, more to study
   
5. probably so, but we don't know yet if it is an invented language
   
6. doesn't matter, it could be a reference label, an abbreviation, or an adjective rather than a noun
   
7. there is no evidence yet for what is a consonant or a vowel, but in the medieval period consonants and vowels were frequently single characters that stood for abbreviations
   

Sometimes what appears to be an intractable problem is merely a sympton of insufficient imagination.