Are perfect-reduplication and quasi-reduplication related?

[ReneZ]

What kind of approach are you thinking of when you speak of parsing Voynichese in the context of comparison with plain written text?

There are quite a number of questions which have not been fully addressed, or if they have been addressed, the right answer has not been found:

- if Eva-f and -p preferentially occur at top lines, it could be that they are ornamental, i.e. nulls or a variant of other letters, or a combination of that. Can this be reconstructed? Note that there are some differences in the behaviour of f and p. Can this help to find out more?

- the unusual behaviour of line-initial words has not been quantified. There is some work from Emma, I believe, but this deserves a further look

- the unusual distribution of line-initial characters has not been quantified. This is likely to be one component in the previous question, but it won't explain everything.

- how to recombine glyphs in order to increase entropy? I did some very initial experiments with this that were quite promising, but the number of possible permutations is a big problem here.

- how can the difference between Currier A and B languages be better quantified? This has been looked at a lot, but no adequate answer exists so far. Note that I disagree with Nick, and don't consider the difference between A and B a major thing. For me it is relatively small, but the words "major" and "relatively small" are quite subjective of course

- should one look closer at languages not written in the Latin script (I think: yes). I think one should concentrate on those that would be available in late medieval Europe in MS form.

- the impact of spelling variants could be looked at, but such variants should only be expected for the vernaculars (a linguist should be able to say more about that).

The initial bullets look more at character issues, but any answer in those areas might help to provide new insights into the general topic of parsing.