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I don’t think I am aware of any formal paper in which the authors do not understand that EVA is meant to be easy to pre-process to test different options, forming glyphs made of several strokes. But, understandably, several amateurs are not familiar with the literature and fail to grasp the concept. A clear discussion of the subject, and a good example of what can be done by a simple EVA pre-processing, is Lindemann, L., & Bowern, C. (2020) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., also referenced by the authors of the theory discussed in this thread. Actually, the theory is based on a system comparable with Lindemann and Bowern’s Minimal Transliteration (where they group 20 EVA sequences, including benches and benched gallows, to form 20 individual characters). Lindemann and Bowern show that such a transliteration does not cause a large increase in entropy and does not go even near to solving the problem.