Extended EVA &163

[Helmut Winkler]

There is the "arc" symbol in the VMS represented as extended EVA &163. (There is also &140, I'm not sure what's the difference between the two, but it seems that &163 is the one I am referring to).
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The arc symbol is used again and again and most likely denotes an abbreviation, similar to the horizontal stroke. No insult meant, but all of you should read the Cappelli introduction some time.

Dear Helmut,

First of all, no insult taken, but please don't think that we are all here not acquainted with Cappelli.

Second, could you please explain in more detail the "likelihood" that &163 denotes an abbreviation in the VMS? I guess you won't dispute the fact that if we substitute medieval Latin abbreviations for Voynich Manuscript characters, the results won't be promising?

Dear Anton,

Well, you are guessing wrong.

In my opinion, the fundamental mistake in dealing with Beinecke 408 is that most people don't take it at its face value. Some guys tell me it is a ciphre but are not able to solve it, which is ridiculous for a 15th c. ciphre or they give me lots of statistics about how some glyphs are behaving  but can't tell me what their statistics mean or read or translate a single glyph, not to mention the Far East and New World theories. It's been this way since the ms. was rediscovered and if you have no results in a hundred years you should sit back and think again.  Beinecke 408  is a 1st half 15th c. Latin European manuscript and should be treated as one, most likely it is a highly abbreviated text.  If there is something that looks like a 15th c. abbreviation stroke it should be treated as such and one should try to find out if there is an abbreviation and what it means. It is the same with other things, e.g. the sign that looks like the etcetera abbreviation, the Arabic numerals and so on.

 If it waddles like a duck and so on ...