06-02-2017, 10:38 AM
I think that there is a bit more to it.
I don't know, of course, whether doary really says Taurus. It is one of many 'long shots' that
might turn out to be right but I wouldn't want to bet on it.
However, doary doesn't really fit the more or less regular word pattern of Voynichese,
and there are many more words that don't. It is conceivable (again one of these long shots)
that Voynichese is some kind of systematic encoding, while some individual words were
(exceptionally) rendered by a simple substitution.
This could make sense for proper names, for example, or for 'foreign' words.
Imagine that the entire MS were written in Hausa, but the Latin word 'Taurus' was kept in
this instance.
I don't know, of course, whether doary really says Taurus. It is one of many 'long shots' that
might turn out to be right but I wouldn't want to bet on it.
However, doary doesn't really fit the more or less regular word pattern of Voynichese,
and there are many more words that don't. It is conceivable (again one of these long shots)
that Voynichese is some kind of systematic encoding, while some individual words were
(exceptionally) rendered by a simple substitution.
This could make sense for proper names, for example, or for 'foreign' words.
Imagine that the entire MS were written in Hausa, but the Latin word 'Taurus' was kept in
this instance.