What are the characteristics of Labelese?
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(07-10-2019, 03:52 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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...
Thank JKP for the reply and your efforts, of course! The issue of the word pairs is pretty interesting, although not easy. Maybe, studying of those pairs even can help to understand whether the Voynich words are really separate words or only an illusion. Interesting that many words of the word pairs in the VMs change their sequence inside of their word combination.
Just a couple of examples. Some of the word pairs of the labels of 75v, while not exist in the text in a strict sequence, but appear there in a changed position to each other:
dary dal (f75v) – dal dary (f45r)
daldy dal (f75v) – dal daldy (f89v1), daldy dalor (f45r).
Just to note, daldy dalor is not an exact match, but it appears along with dal dary on the same page (herbal section, Hand A).
Continuing the theme of the label / word otol, I'd note that the most frequent combination with the word otol in the herbal + pharma sections are otol daiin (7 times, also 3 occ. of qotol daiin, daiin otol - 1 occ., daiin qotol - 2 occ.) and otol chol (7 occurences). It is notable that otol daiiin from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. doesn't occur anywhere in the VMs. As allways the issue of i, ii and iii is still here. Is it the same as otol daiin? Anyway the fragment of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. absolutely doesn't clarify this: "... daiin daiiin dain dain daiin qol chy dain v or daiin dain...". 
In the same time, more repeatable word combination with otol in the Bio section is otol chedy (5 occurences). Nevertheless, one of the labels of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - otol shedy isn't occur in the text, instead of this, shedy qotol occurs 2 times (one - in the first line of the same page), and qotol shedy (once - on the f77r). [Thereby I still consider q-sign a null]
In conclusion, otol daiin of the herbal part and otol chedy of the Bio section are likely two different otols, but I think it doesn't mean - different words for otol itself. 
The word otol of the Cosmo section rather stands alone.
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