What are the characteristics of Labelese?

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Ok. I agree. But the knowledge of this itself doesn't help. Did anyone try to find some common thing between those labels for different objects? Or common homograph? How many people examined and tried to make identifications of a particular word or word combination? As for the multiple encriptions, I'm just not sure how they can be recognized in the text.
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I created a color-coded concordance of every token in the Voynich Manuscript. It took more than two years of dedicated effort to trace all of the tokens and their relationships to one another. The explanations that go with the concordance come to more than 1,000 pages. I also documented common endings and beginnings for each token that appeared to be expanded in regular ways.

I broke up the VMS "sections" into smaller subgroups so I could track them more precisely (I posted examples in the past on other threads).


I was looking for patterns for particular Vords... Do they show up in subject areas that are related? Are they associated with particular kinds of images? Do they follow certain linguistic patterns? Are they associated with certain other words? Are there subject-matter patterns within specific sections (like the zodiac-figures section, for example)? Cam we find tokens for words like leaf/root/stem, earth/air/fire/water, hot or cold?


It did not result in the kind of patterns one would expect if the VMS tokens were considered to be words (with respect to the placement of the spaces), so I went back through it and started documenting word pairs. This was also a long and arduous challenge and more difficult, because where do you choose the word breaks? Which ones might go together? Are there word breaks within tokens? How do patterns in the illustrated sections related to the text on the unillustrated folios? etc...


After putting in such an incredible effort to find patterns/relationships, the only noteworthy patterns that I saw were that the cho Vords showed up more often in the plant sections and the oh words more often in the star-related sections. The other commonalities did not yield the kind of linguistic patterns one would expect.