[split] (lack of) scribal mistakes / corrections

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I do have one idea that may perhaps shed light on the rigidity and lack of flexibility of glyph positioning, which is a huge problem as you absolutely correctly point out: Not in the Hebrew script, but in the Arabic and Syriac scripts, certain letters are always *unconnected* with the following letter. Perhaps some of the glyphs in the ms that we see as ending words, are simply unconnected to the following glyph but still part of the same word. Now this does not solve all of the problems with this issue, not at all, not by a long shot. But it does offer one possible explanation for why *some* glyphs *always* appear to be word-final, whether they actually always are or not.

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I have suggested quite a few times (for quite a long time) that the tokens (or some of them), might be "syllables" (in the Voynichese sense) rather than full words, but I have met with some resistance to this idea.