Transliteration fun
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(25-02-2020, 08:49 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(25-02-2020, 06:56 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rene, I don't think I had seen these things before. One's general impression of the MS is that the system is followed rigorously, so why these deviations?

I agree that they look deliberately formed. But what are they? Just rare characters, like a text in Dutch might contain only one "x"? 
Scribal slip?
And if so, influence from Voynichese or from his "native" writing system?

These are exactly the questions I am asking myself.

If the text were meaningless or some kind of a 'fake',  I would not expect these things to happen, but that hardly qualifies as evidence. Just a hint or a suggestion.
Actually, I would expect these things to happen if it were a meaningless fake, because despite all appearances of one, we're not really dealing with a (strictly controlled) alphabet but something meant to look like one. But then again, my expectation hardly qualifies as evidence.
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Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 25-02-2020, 06:41 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Wladimir D - 25-02-2020, 09:32 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Helmut Winkler - 25-02-2020, 12:17 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 25-02-2020, 04:00 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Helmut Winkler - 25-02-2020, 04:53 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 25-02-2020, 05:02 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 25-02-2020, 05:18 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 26-02-2020, 05:43 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 25-02-2020, 06:02 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Helmut Winkler - 25-02-2020, 06:03 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by nablator - 25-02-2020, 06:06 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 25-02-2020, 06:09 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by nablator - 25-02-2020, 06:19 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Wladimir D - 25-02-2020, 06:36 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 25-02-2020, 06:39 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Koen G - 25-02-2020, 06:56 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 25-02-2020, 08:49 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Stephen Carlson - 25-02-2020, 10:33 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Helmut Winkler - 26-02-2020, 09:57 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Monica Yokubinas - 25-02-2020, 08:01 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Koen G - 25-02-2020, 11:53 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 26-02-2020, 01:40 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 26-02-2020, 06:23 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Aga Tentakulus - 26-02-2020, 08:14 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 26-02-2020, 10:53 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Wladimir D - 26-02-2020, 11:50 AM
RE: Transliteration fun - by Monica Yokubinas - 28-02-2020, 04:09 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by nickpelling - 28-02-2020, 04:23 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 28-02-2020, 06:50 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by -JKP- - 28-02-2020, 07:02 PM
RE: Transliteration fun - by ReneZ - 28-02-2020, 08:52 PM

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