01-04-2020, 11:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2020, 11:24 AM by Mark Knowles.)
I actually wanted to keep this in the context of the Pharma labels as that was the context in which I was addressing the comments of others and in which my owns thoughts were focused. Anyway I don't object to the thread being moved, so that's OK.
There is a very literalist approach, which I have referred to, namely that Voynichese must be identical to ciphers of the period in order for there to be any parallels. For example, I am suggesting that there is a much higher proportion of null filler text in the Voynich than one sees in typical diplomatic ciphers, which actually makes logical sense for the author given the much greater length of the text of the Voynich when compared to diplomatic ciphers.
I was trying first of all to introduce broad concepts such as the same word being spelled more than one completely different ways, which fits neatly with the nature of homophones.
There is a very literalist approach, which I have referred to, namely that Voynichese must be identical to ciphers of the period in order for there to be any parallels. For example, I am suggesting that there is a much higher proportion of null filler text in the Voynich than one sees in typical diplomatic ciphers, which actually makes logical sense for the author given the much greater length of the text of the Voynich when compared to diplomatic ciphers.
I was trying first of all to introduce broad concepts such as the same word being spelled more than one completely different ways, which fits neatly with the nature of homophones.