The incredible unravelling of the Voynich Manuscript

[-JKP-]

In your example translation for token number 2 (page 123), you expand the Latin abbreviation y into "con"... but then you further expand the transliterated word "contam" into percontari or contaminare because "contam" is not actually a word. You have done this with other words, as well.

So, if a transliterated word in Voynichese does not match a Latin word, are you saying that it's okay to subjectively expand it further until it becomes a Latin word?


This, in addition to the numerous transliteration options for each of the gallows characters gives you a lot of degrees of freedom. Even with all this freedom, it's not really Latin...


On folio 1r, sentence 3, your translation sororem/soter cicutas oret/orexis tantum/tent humanum careat animae is translated as Sister/rescuer The Hemlocks requests desires merely to try a human to dispense/be free from spirit/soul.

This is not how it would be expressed in Latin. It is missing common key words like "ad" "et" and "ex", along with appropriate grammatical endings.