01-02-2018, 11:49 AM
Quote:So then what I would wonder next is, is there an anagramming procedure which can account for Voynichese statistics on the one hand and be reversible on the other?
That's exactly the question that the paper induces to ask. For sure there would be no complete answer, because the whole approach with anagramming leaves out of scope anything beyond the level of a single vord. But nevertheless it's a direction worth thinking in, I suppose.
Regarding pure anagramming, where I would look at would be supposed sets of homogenous objects that are labeled. For example, "Voynich stars" of f68r1, f68r2 or "Voynich moons" of f67r2. Twelve moons in f67r2 suggest the idea of months, but the problem is that the respective labels would not correspond to month names in other languages in terms of similarity to each other (e.g. the sequence of suffixes). Maybe the situation is better with anagramming? One could look here - with success not guaranteed, not in the least part because we have no guarantee that the labels ever stand for month names - the author may have been particularly careful in not betraying his code through obvious labels, and the plant mnemonics joining together botanical and pharma sections are somewhat suggesting that.
