Marco, you'll find this also works on f77r. Wet by the woman, hot by the man, etc.
It's not so much a matter of opposition. It's that the syllable stands for a concept. It works for the labels. It works very well, when you consider that in the medieval mind everything was made up of simple fundamentals, usually in groups of three or four, with four being especially important after Europe was Christianized because it supposedly stemmed from the creation story.
The main reason I hadn't written this up is that applying it to a large block of text (the main text) is more difficult. I suffer from the same obsession physicists have, of trying to find a "unified theory". I'm still not 100% convinced the main text works exactly like the labels (it does, sort of, but not completely).
(06-05-2016, 10:17 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well spotted, Marco.
It's probably too early to say what it could actually mean, but the examples you provide do show that some kind of complementary grammatical distribution is possible. If more examples can be found, it may give us some insight into the grammar of Voynichese.
In this case a possibility would be, if I understand it correctly, thay words starting with ch can be the opposite of the same word starting with sh?
It's not so much a matter of opposition. It's that the syllable stands for a concept. It works for the labels. It works very well, when you consider that in the medieval mind everything was made up of simple fundamentals, usually in groups of three or four, with four being especially important after Europe was Christianized because it supposedly stemmed from the creation story.
The main reason I hadn't written this up is that applying it to a large block of text (the main text) is more difficult. I suffer from the same obsession physicists have, of trying to find a "unified theory". I'm still not 100% convinced the main text works exactly like the labels (it does, sort of, but not completely).