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The {8am} strategy - dfs346 - 25-04-2024
Thoughts on the {8am} strategy: meaning a focus on the v101 "word" {8am} as a test case for mapping from the Voynich manuscript to natural languages.
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A series of mappings of [8am} from various transliterations of the Voynich manuscript to medieval Italian, as represented by the OVI corpus. Author's analysis. H1 = “herbal” section, parts A and B. D1 = Scribe 1 (per Dr Lisa Fagin Davis). RSQ = correlation coefficient between glyph and letter frequencies. AFD = average absolute difference between glyph and letter frequencies.
RE: The {8am} strategy - pjburkshire - 25-04-2024
"The next step would be to map some other ubiquitous “words” in the Voynich manuscript, such as {oe} and {am}; and see whether we can make some more real words in the target language. If several common Voynich “words” can be mapped to real words in some language, we might venture onwards, to mappings of whole lines. Those mappings would have to make sense."
I think this is a very good plan but I think the topic should be considered. I think a distinction should be made between high-count words on plant pages and high-count words in Quire 13 which, from the illustrations, seems to have little, if anything, to do with plants.
RE: The {8am} strategy - RobGea - 25-04-2024
if 8am maps to NOC , then you have 3 mapped voynichese glyphs.
Then perhaps a next step would be to find other voynichese words that contain those 1-3 mapped glyphs + 1 unmapped glyph
and then use the 1-3 known lettters as clues (cues ?) to help find a plausible candidate letter for the unmapped glyph.