29-09-2020, 01:44 PM
(29-09-2020, 12:18 AM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Text on the innermost ring of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (“White Aries”):
Quote:oteeol otal chs char cheky chetshy okeeody oteey chekesUsing geoffreycaveney’s VCI substitutions, I get:
Quote:béz ba(s) ir jal jetə jepržə dégə béə jeter
I used “ə” as a placeholder for [EVA]y[/EVA]. I just felt like a schwa was just easier for my brain to parse as an unknown vowel, or vowel-flavored variable, if you will, than y.
I’d be interested to hear any L1 or experienced L2 speakers of Slavic languages’ take on this.
Thanks Renegade! I will have to study my Sorbian resources to see if I can make any sense out of this reading, but it doesn't look too bad as a natural language-like string of text at first glance.
The schwa is not a bad choice for EVA [y]; in my own modified Slavic VCI I am now just using <#>. (Please note Koen's new result that combining his best verbose cipher analysis with treatment of [y] as a null increases h2 conditional entropy to 3.20, the best such result yet!)
Also note that I now use <rj> rather than <rž> for EVA [sh].
And EVA [od], like EVA [d], will be complicated: I mainly read [d] as <c> now, a logical linguistic result of palatalization of /k/. EVA [od] is even trickier, since /g/ could undergo palatalization to <ž> but also lenition to <h>. They look like completely different sounds but they both arose from historical /g/.
Oh and definitely <bas> now for [otal]; omitting the <s> was a half-way measure in my original VCI system, but it is more consistent with <s> now that I am treating VCI as a Slavic interpretation rather than pretending it could be a purely language-neutral transcription system.
If we read <béz bas> as "bez vas", this means "without you (plural)" in many Slavic languages.

