14-05-2020, 06:27 AM
(13-05-2020, 11:49 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.EVA converts the c-shapes to e-shapes for mnemonic purposes. Mnemonic text systems almost always depend on converting the VMS glyphs to something that is closer to natural language so it can be more easily remembered. To put it simply: EVA CHANGES Voynichese shapes to be closer to natural language. Many computational attacks assume the vowel-like shapes are vowels.
While one has to be careful doing numerical analysis using Eva transliterations, this argument is not valid, I am afraid.
Transliteration is not about shapes. It is about rendering the handwriting in a computer-readable form.
We simply don't know if e was meant to represent a consonant. Saying that Eva changes it, means that one might assume that it was. We don't even know if it is a complete plain text symbol or phoneme. It could just represent a minim in another script, or a diacritic. We don't know if ee is the same as two e 's and eee is the same as three e 's.
If e is a consonant, these strings are very hard to explain.
(Note that Dutch allows from 1-4 e's in a row, but I am of course not saying that it is Dutch).
Secondly, this particular analysis makes no assumption about whether any symbol is a vowel or a consonant. All are treated equally.