Transliteration fun

[Monica Yokubinas]

When I wrote elsewhere:

In fact I have other things to do that I consider more interesting, and I want to finish first.

no mystery was implied. I am having some 'fun' with the existing transliterations of the Voynich MS. All sorts of interesting things are coming out of that, and they will be written down somewhere soon.

One example is that my own transliteration ('ZL'), which was done in Eva, is much closer to the v101 transliteration which was done in GC's alphabet than to Takeshi Takahashi's transliteration which was again in Eva. I will be able to quantify this at some point.

Another interesting thing lies in the 'rare characters'. We are all used to seeing the examples of what appear to be badly-formed characters, or apparent corrections, in the many posts from Wladimir. But there are other cases as well. Just to give one example... (and referring to this page:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. )

The extended Eva table has a character with code 203, which is also found in the v101 table with code 169.
This is a character that appears exactly once in the entire text, and it is in a clearly 'legible' part, namely the 8th line of f22r.



This is not an isolated case, and it is of interest to try to imagine what the existence of such characters tells us.
The clear execution shows that it was meant to look like this, and it is sufficiently different from other characters to
be sure it is not a 'mistaken identity'.

Just a quick mention to think about. If the Voynich is written phonetically  these anomalies as you see them, are the vocalization of the specific letter in the word. so let's say the letter is a 'T' it would have a 'Teee' or possible 'Tha' sound or if it is an 'M' it would have an 'mmm' sound, or an 'A' it would be an 'Ahhhh' sound.