(12-08-2020, 03:58 PM)farmerjohn wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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Even if your transliteration is 100% precise you have to make some choices (at least about aiin, ch, sh, ckh...) before feeding this transliteration to app/algorithm (do nothing is also a choice). So producing statistical analysis of any form and keeping it theory-neutral at the same time is impossible.
Yes, I completely agree with this and I don't think we are anywhere near agreement or have enough insight into what Voynichese is to make informed decisions about many of the glyphs or glyph-combinations (the benched gallows being a particular sticking point).
But we can separate out single glyphs from portions of those that have different statistical properties so that linguists and others who might not specifically be programmers (who might not know how to pre-process/parse/distinguish S from sh) can have a minimally unambiguous transliteration to feed into various apps that allow data analysis and visualization.