06-01-2016, 11:21 PM
I have a trifle suggestion.
Now and then we have to refer to the notion of Voynichese "words". Sometimes they are called "words" (which is not strictly true, because we are not sure that they represent words really), sometimes they are called "tokens", which does not look to me a 100% perfect designation neither, from the linguistics point of view.
Perhaps if we borrow a term from the IT world we may call them "chunks".
I'd like to introduce a field-invariant suggestion though, which simply circumvents the problem by means of a neologism.
Why not call them "vords" (= Voynichese words)?
Whether this name becomes widespread depends of course on whether you'd like it
Now and then we have to refer to the notion of Voynichese "words". Sometimes they are called "words" (which is not strictly true, because we are not sure that they represent words really), sometimes they are called "tokens", which does not look to me a 100% perfect designation neither, from the linguistics point of view.
Perhaps if we borrow a term from the IT world we may call them "chunks".
I'd like to introduce a field-invariant suggestion though, which simply circumvents the problem by means of a neologism.
Why not call them "vords" (= Voynichese words)?
Whether this name becomes widespread depends of course on whether you'd like it