Lingua Volgare Shorthand

[Koen G]

The truth is that an alphabet like Eva, which indeed is well known to split up things that are probably units, does indeed further lower conditional entropy, but in all known alphabets this entropy is anomalously low.

I agree. The most obvious EVA splits are the benches. Second perhaps [i]-clusters. But unsplitting those still won't get your h2 up to 2.5. (Conditional character entropy of around 3 would be at the lower end for regular texts).

The notion that EVA probably splits too much is not new, and it wasn't new when I wrote this post: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

There, I took merging common glyph pairs to the extreme, and the resulting entropy is still not satisfactory. Not to mention the reduction to word length etc.