Interesting Match

[Legit]

Greetings,
Everyone here should be familiar with the voynichese word daiin.  I was looking through the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. because it has some diagrams that seem to match some VM diagrams.  I noticed a similar word in reverse.

If you reverse the order of the letters of daiin you see an interesting similarity.
         

 This appears multiple times in the first page and I thought it might be interesting to someone especially since it's written in Latin.

[JoJo_Jost]

 This appears multiple times in the first page and I thought it might be interesting to someone especially since it's written in Latin.

I had also noticed (and I'm sure others had too) that ‘aiin’ could be a mirror image of ‘duo’. And with it, that dua8 could be daiin. The problem is that these two terms appear so frequently in the VMS. And they appear in very different places and within words, so I rejected this theory. They are simply too omnipresent....

[Koen G]

I would have never noticed this, but I see what you mean. One issue is that "minim with upward swoop" isn't quite the way "d" was written. Though of course you could argue that it was done for convenience. I'd personally chalk it up to coincidence, unless the practice turns out to be more generalized.

[nablator]

The final "s" were written like a Greek sigma, in a single stroke like a 6, Other "s" were written in the long form.

The word is "duas", two in the accusative plural feminine... it can't be the most common word of any text.

[Legit]

The final "s" were written like a Greek sigma, in a single stroke like a 6, Other "s" were written in the long form.

The word is "duas", two in the accusative plural feminine... it can't be the most common word of any text.

Perhaps while writing the VM letters, the slant of the S would match the overall slant of the word for convenience.  The way cursive tends to angle according to the position of the hand of the writer.

Could it be very common if the text was about duality of a property, of a form, yin/yang, duality of different types of things, or instructions to do something twice?

[MarcoP]

We know that Voynichese is not "an ordinary language written with a weird alphabet" (not Latin, in particular).
Reversing the text does not affect entropy.

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