13-04-2019, 02:32 AM
Another exercise, probably mainly for Koffee, but of course anyone is welcome to try:
This will be Modern Greek, and not from a well-known text. But, like so much of the Voynich MS, it will be accompanied by an illustration:
And the Voynichese text is simply the caption for this illustration. Perhaps this is somewhat akin to the Voynich MS labels that accompany so many illustrations in the MS itself.
[ s rchol kar dos ckhaiin ychain dshey shol tarol shod shy char qod ]
Now please everyone, keep in mind that this is pure Modern Greek, so we cannot expect this Voynichese text to look exactly like the Voynich MS itself, which was after all a late medieval mixture of classical and medieval Greek, as was typical of much written Greek in that period. Nevertheless, I submit that this line of text is still a fair resemblance and approximation of typical Voynich MS Voynichese text. Thus, "[qod]" may not be a common Voynich MS word or a typical use of the character "[q]", but nevertheless this Voynichese word occurs 8 times in the Voynich MS, for example.
Note 1: In this line again, all four [sh] characters happen to be [sh] with an open loop on top.
Note 2: Consider this a line where [p] and [f] were not written at all (as in most of the Voynich MS).
Note 3: It is necessary to note here that many Greek word-final vowels are simply deleted. And yet, I am confident that this will not prevent Koffee from figuring out what the caption says.
Note 4: This line of 13 Voynichese words represents 9 Greek words in the original text.
Note 5: In one place in this text, one Voynich vowel character is a pure "placeholder", with no phonetic Greek value, between two consonants. This is actually akin to the representation of Greek in the Linear B script, but I have not previously proposed such a phenomenon in my theory until now. One may alternately interpret this statement as "Geoffrey alters his theory with another line of text yet again", or as "Geoffrey refines and improves his theory yet again, based on additional data".
Geoffrey
This will be Modern Greek, and not from a well-known text. But, like so much of the Voynich MS, it will be accompanied by an illustration:
And the Voynichese text is simply the caption for this illustration. Perhaps this is somewhat akin to the Voynich MS labels that accompany so many illustrations in the MS itself.
[ s rchol kar dos ckhaiin ychain dshey shol tarol shod shy char qod ]
Now please everyone, keep in mind that this is pure Modern Greek, so we cannot expect this Voynichese text to look exactly like the Voynich MS itself, which was after all a late medieval mixture of classical and medieval Greek, as was typical of much written Greek in that period. Nevertheless, I submit that this line of text is still a fair resemblance and approximation of typical Voynich MS Voynichese text. Thus, "[qod]" may not be a common Voynich MS word or a typical use of the character "[q]", but nevertheless this Voynichese word occurs 8 times in the Voynich MS, for example.
Note 1: In this line again, all four [sh] characters happen to be [sh] with an open loop on top.
Note 2: Consider this a line where [p] and [f] were not written at all (as in most of the Voynich MS).
Note 3: It is necessary to note here that many Greek word-final vowels are simply deleted. And yet, I am confident that this will not prevent Koffee from figuring out what the caption says.
Note 4: This line of 13 Voynichese words represents 9 Greek words in the original text.
Note 5: In one place in this text, one Voynich vowel character is a pure "placeholder", with no phonetic Greek value, between two consonants. This is actually akin to the representation of Greek in the Linear B script, but I have not previously proposed such a phenomenon in my theory until now. One may alternately interpret this statement as "Geoffrey alters his theory with another line of text yet again", or as "Geoffrey refines and improves his theory yet again, based on additional data".
Geoffrey