23-02-2017, 03:44 PM
As I intended to point out in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the questions about word structure (shown in all the nice diagrams) and whether the text is meaningful or not, are separated by a few steps.
My observation that it is far from certain that the Voynich symbols represent 'letters' (as they are usually understood) also does not automatically imply that the text would not be language, and that it would be meaningless.
There are arguments in favour of 'language' and there are arguments against it.
Notably the 2007 paper of Andreas Schinner in Cryptologia argues against a meaningful text precisely because of (among others) the vertical structures.
I can only say that I don't know either way.
My observation that it is far from certain that the Voynich symbols represent 'letters' (as they are usually understood) also does not automatically imply that the text would not be language, and that it would be meaningless.
There are arguments in favour of 'language' and there are arguments against it.
Notably the 2007 paper of Andreas Schinner in Cryptologia argues against a meaningful text precisely because of (among others) the vertical structures.
I can only say that I don't know either way.


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