frequent Voynich vords in Slavic VCI and West Slavic languages

[geoffreycaveney]

A better test (than just a brief 'sentence') would be to take half a page from quire 13.

Rene, thank you for the suggestion. I suppose one reason to try quire 13 (the "bathing women" or so-called biological or balneological section) as a test is that it would appear to tell a story, so we would expect it to be perhaps more "readable" than medieval medical or pharmaceutical notebook pages, which could be full of obscure abbreviations and specialized notations, which could be difficult for anyone to interpret outside the context of their specific time, place, and culture. 

Indeed out of curiosity I already took a look at the very beginning of quire 13, the passage of text at the top of folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. through the first four complete lines. If there is any sense to this text at all, we might logically consider this to be "the beginning of the story", if we have a story here at all. 

Here is the EVA transcription of these lines:

[kchedy  kary]
[dain  shey  ly]  [okeey  qokar  shy  kchedy  qotar  shedy]
[qokain  chal]  [ssheol  qolchedy  chedykar  chekeedy  ror]
[dackhy  lkamo]  [orchey  qey  kain  sheeky  ltain  olkar  or]
[shey  kar  chey]  [ykeey  lshey  kal  dy  shey  or  shey  qokeedy]

And here is my Slavic VCI reading of this text: 

<tiec#  tal#>
<co  rje#  s#>  <dé#  nal  rj#  tiec#  mal  rjec#>
<no  jas>  <rrjez  nšec#  jec#tal  jetéc#  lw>
<catj#  stásch>  <wje#  ne#  to  rjét#  spo  ztal  w>
<rje#  tal  je#>  <#té#  srje#  tas  c#  rje#  w  rje#  néc#>

We can at least see here a glimpse of how a verbose cipher + [y] as a null can get us up to a 3.20 h2 conditional entropy. It may or may not make sense--to us--but it looks more like a natural language text.