04-03-2025, 02:27 PM
I'll throw some my opinions.
You are right that EVA transcription is not perfect. I don't like it a bit too. It treats things which are most probably single symbols like "benches" as they would be group of letters. And what is even worse it creates a false impression that some letters appear in the vords while they most probably don't appear.
Have a look:
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EVA makes you believe that these two vords share "c" letter and "h" letter. But probably they don't as "ch" is single symbol and "cth" is another single symbol which may be something totally different. So in my personal opinion it would be really better to write it down something like Xor and Yom. Unfortunately 90% of people don't notice it or forget it and they treat "c" and "h" in these two words like they were the same letters when they do their substitutions.
And speaking of substitutions, this is the major challenge of your solution. You seem rational but you are doing the same thing as many people before - a simple substitution, although a bit less simple in your case as you notice the benches and things like "aiin" to be single things. It's not true that other people were unable to get any longer texts with it. Check for example these solutions:
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They all give you "something" which is a text which is not very grammatical, has words are only similar to real words, symbols are ambiguous and the meaning is quite weird. But they always pull an ace out of their sleeve that it is some rare dialect full of abbreviations and the author uses some "licentia poetica" which allows him to write in strange way.
None of these solutions were accepted. Do you think you can do it better?
You are right that EVA transcription is not perfect. I don't like it a bit too. It treats things which are most probably single symbols like "benches" as they would be group of letters. And what is even worse it creates a false impression that some letters appear in the vords while they most probably don't appear.
Have a look:
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EVA makes you believe that these two vords share "c" letter and "h" letter. But probably they don't as "ch" is single symbol and "cth" is another single symbol which may be something totally different. So in my personal opinion it would be really better to write it down something like Xor and Yom. Unfortunately 90% of people don't notice it or forget it and they treat "c" and "h" in these two words like they were the same letters when they do their substitutions.
And speaking of substitutions, this is the major challenge of your solution. You seem rational but you are doing the same thing as many people before - a simple substitution, although a bit less simple in your case as you notice the benches and things like "aiin" to be single things. It's not true that other people were unable to get any longer texts with it. Check for example these solutions:
Gerard Chesire You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
John Farmer You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Sugula and Kaluzna You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
They all give you "something" which is a text which is not very grammatical, has words are only similar to real words, symbols are ambiguous and the meaning is quite weird. But they always pull an ace out of their sleeve that it is some rare dialect full of abbreviations and the author uses some "licentia poetica" which allows him to write in strange way.
None of these solutions were accepted. Do you think you can do it better?