(16-03-2019, 04:07 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Here is another possibility: Perhaps I was wrong about the first word "geio-pan" as well. Koen already pointed out a big problem with it. Well, perhaps the first letter, the Voynich gallows letter [t], is not an actual letter in the text at all, but just a "pilcrow" paragraph marker. JKP has pointed to this theory, as he mentioned in a recent comment on this forum.
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Please don't call it a theory.
I don't work that way.
I brainstorm. I create lists of possibilities. Then I work through them to see which ones work and which ones don't. That usually creates a shorter list.
After that, it can take a lot of research to test which might be the most fruitful lines of investigation. AFTER that, it MIGHT be possible to develop a theory but I do NOT feel I know the VMS well enough yet to work from theories—that would be premature and too constraining. I am still working through my lists of ideas. I'll let you know when I have enough info to form a theory.
The pilcrow is only one idea of several and even if there are pilcrows. I am not certain they ALL are pilcrows. I think there MIGHT be some glyphs that have more than one function.