19-03-2019, 01:44 AM
I have to admit, I have never thought of Voynich glyphs as sounds.
The first time I saw the text, I thought it was a cipher and ciphers don't have to correspond to human sounds even if they encode language.
Also, there are languages I can read that I have never heard, ever. I have no idea what they sound like, so I look at script as information that doesn't necessarily have to be connected to sound even if people in another culture connect it to sound.
After the first few days, I stopped assuming it was natural language (I thought it might be, at first) and simply tried to see it as information... whether that is language, pseudo-language (a made up language like twin-speak), echolalia, symbols, math, or whatever, I figure my job is to figure out what it is, not to try to impose expectations on the text. That means that even though I think it's possible that it's referential or symbolic, I still don't discount other possibilities (including natural language encoded in a unique way).
The first time I saw the text, I thought it was a cipher and ciphers don't have to correspond to human sounds even if they encode language.
Also, there are languages I can read that I have never heard, ever. I have no idea what they sound like, so I look at script as information that doesn't necessarily have to be connected to sound even if people in another culture connect it to sound.
After the first few days, I stopped assuming it was natural language (I thought it might be, at first) and simply tried to see it as information... whether that is language, pseudo-language (a made up language like twin-speak), echolalia, symbols, math, or whatever, I figure my job is to figure out what it is, not to try to impose expectations on the text. That means that even though I think it's possible that it's referential or symbolic, I still don't discount other possibilities (including natural language encoded in a unique way).