09-07-2018, 02:18 PM
There was recent splash of discussion about abbreviations in the forum, and it was reiterated (by JKP I think) that principles of Latin abbreviation were oftentimes transferred to writings in other languages using the Latin script as well.
In that view, it suddenly occured to me that otherwise unintelligible portions of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. may in fact feature abbreviation symbols (which we try to interpret as plain text, and thus to no avail).
It was in connection with (p/v)al(d/s)en in the last line that this idea came to me. The fact is that neither "e" nor "n" in this word do look natural unless you attribute what's in between them simply to a blot. But in fact the supposed blot may be a tail for the "e", making the whole shape look like Voynichese s . As abbreviation, this stood for "er", as Cappelli suggests.
I was not able to find a valid translation of "palderen", "valderen", "palseren" or "valseren" though. Maybe the "8" shape is an abbreviation also?
Any thoughts?
In that view, it suddenly occured to me that otherwise unintelligible portions of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. may in fact feature abbreviation symbols (which we try to interpret as plain text, and thus to no avail).
It was in connection with (p/v)al(d/s)en in the last line that this idea came to me. The fact is that neither "e" nor "n" in this word do look natural unless you attribute what's in between them simply to a blot. But in fact the supposed blot may be a tail for the "e", making the whole shape look like Voynichese s . As abbreviation, this stood for "er", as Cappelli suggests.
I was not able to find a valid translation of "palderen", "valderen", "palseren" or "valseren" though. Maybe the "8" shape is an abbreviation also?
Any thoughts?