A semantic encoding system?

[Jonas Barnun]

So in the absence of a key to decode it, this hypothesis implies the VMS will remain obscure no matter how much time we spend analyzing it’s structure. Am I wrong? Are there ways to translate a totally unknown and unrelated language without any rosetta stone?

Well, you may check my thread about the Rohonc Codex (note: this solution isn't universally accepted):
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In that case you don't have classical Rosetta stone (a text in two languages) but the text tells known stories and has illustrations suggesting the context. It's up to you if you call it "Rosetta stone" or not.

Waw that’s amazing! I am super impressed, congrats! Do you have an updated paper to download, some of the links I tried were dead. 

I guess a text telling the story of Jesus with pictures is helpful and it is a kind of minimal rosetta stone. I love the way he / she writes 40 like four times the sign for 10, a bit rudimentary but efficient!

After you’re done with Rohonc you’ll start tackling the VMS?

I guess I agree with you a language with no context and minimal / ambiguous drawings offers little to build on. Etruscan is indeed another example and it makes sense. Languages are somehow random and the signifier link with the signified is mostly random. Structures and statistics alone don’t allow to assign meaning to a text.