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The incompatibility of Voynichese with natural human language
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The text in the VMs behaves unusual on character and also on 'word' level. On character level it is possible to describe certain rules for the usage of the glyphs. Some of the rules apply for the whole manuscript whereas other rules only apply for some parts of the manuscript. Sometimes a rule only applies for a certain page, paragraph or 'word'. On the other hand, there are no similar rules on the 'word' level. Every 'word' can follow every other 'word'. 

For a text using a natural language grammatical rules on word level and only a few rules on letter level are expected. Words are used in the context of other words and if a word is modified this usually happens in a consistent way (in a  alphabetical or syllabic writing system for instances by changing prefixes or suffixes). The rules for using the words are the same for the whole text.

In summary a text in natural language is using words to form grammatically correct sentences whereas the text in the VMs is using glyphs to form groups that only look like 'words'.
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RE: The incompatibility of Voynichese with natural human language - by Torsten - 13-03-2020, 11:54 PM

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