06-08-2019, 09:48 PM
(02-08-2019, 08:36 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How can different source words be mapped into homographs and still produce a high TTR?
It's a good question.
Certainly, I don't see any way that medieval Tironian-style abbreviations could be present in Voynichese: but by 1450, these had all but disappeared from normal scribal use.
More generally, I struggle to see how Latin (where so much of the semantic content is held in the word ending) could be compatible with Voynichese, which has such a stylized paucity of endings.
The TTR results are challenging for anyone seeking to explain Voynichese in terms of a single defining mechanism. I believe that abbreviation will turn out to be part of the overall picture (because the changing word length is hard to account for otherwise), but only part of the picture.