[split] Verbose cipher?

[geoffreycaveney]

I'm glad it seems interesting to you, Koen and Michelle.

Someone, I believe it may have been Marco, raised the point that a verbose cipher could make the labels in the Voynich ms even more difficult to interpret, as each label would carry even less content in terms of its actual number of distinct meaningful units. Out of curiosity I tested the VCI transcription on the 12 labels around the outside of what may be a Zodiac circle on folio page f67v1. I consider the results potentially rather encouraging in terms of the "readability" of the labels as well as their distinction from each other (as opposed to the apparently excessive repetition seen in their EVA transcription readings). To wit:

(Starting with EVA [okal ary] near 12 o'clock position and proceeding clockwise)

da aly

kl itza

dzaky

kirytiy

ytegal

keihets

d'hrá

thialky

higale

zr oy

káás

kálta


I continue to be pleased at the impact of treating independent EVA [o]'s as VCI <h>'s. 

Geoffrey