17-03-2019, 11:15 PM
(17-03-2019, 06:24 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would not stricly advocate a "purely nomenclator" solution; with 8114 (as per voynich.nu) different vords comprising the vocabulary of Voynichese, it's quite an open question whether it would have been both efficient and possible to base that entirely on a nomenclator. That's quite a number; for example, Shakespeare's vocabulary embraces (as I just googled out) roughly 12000 words.
We need to be careful and precise about things such as the "number of words in Shakespeare's vocabulary". I imagine that in that count of 12,000 words, they did not include the numerous spelling variations that actually appear in all of the quartos, folios, etc., of all of the texts of Shakespeare's plays. If they did include all of the spelling variations, I bet the number would be much higher than 12,000. And that was 150 years *after* the invention of the printing press! I can only imagine that spelling variations were even far greater in manuscripts prior to the invention of the printing press, such as at the time of the Voynich ms.