My thoughts on the VMS

[-JKP-]

I think the number of <e> characters is significant, so much so that I immediately rejected the Takahashi transcription and created my own, partly because he neglected to include some of the <e> glyphs, almost as if he were reluctant to accept that there could be three or sometimes four in a row. That kind of editing, based on preconceived notions of natural language, can affect the results.

I think it's entirely possible that <ee> (which I call <cc> because I don't like imposing meaning on the shape of the glyphs) could be a digraph and may function separately or differently from a single <e>.