24-09-2020, 10:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-09-2020, 10:40 AM by Mark Knowles.)
(24-09-2020, 02:03 AM)Voynichgibberish wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote: doesn't matter, it could be a reference label, an abbreviation, or an adjective rather than a noun
Yes, I would agree with you that JKP's explanation is not a sufficiently persuasive one. If it is a reference label, how and where can one find the thing to which it refers? If it is an abbreviation then it would have to be so brief as to be virtually useless in identifying the word it is abbreviated from, which is particularly significant in the case of the often very specific drawings that labels are attached to. It is hard to see how the same adjectives could be applied to such specific drawings. Another point worth noting is that distinct repeated labels often have very similar spellings.
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Sometimes what appears to be an intractable problem is merely a sympton of insufficient imagination. Dear JKP,
My imagination is quite healthy, because I have peered into the Voynich Manuscript since 2009, thank you very much! I must admit I was amused by this you hit back with a classic JKP style line, namely you stated the number of years you had been studying the Voynich.