What are labels?

[Anton]

Namely that the Voynich contains "filler" text which conforms to a certain structure. So words like otol, okol, otor, okor... are essentially what I term "null" words. Since I first learnt about repeated words I suspected that they were fillers. So I stand somewhere between the people who think all the text in the Voynich is nonsense and people who think none of the text in the Voynich is nonsense. I think some is meaningful and some meaningless. Anyway if we put such "otol" like words to one side we have a number of unusually rare words, such as we find with plant labels, and the question is then how we explain those as adjectives or numbers.

Unfortunately, I'm not closely following all discussions in the Forum these days, so I'm not acquainted with this theory of yours. However, it would be strange to have "null" labels, would not it? Consider the "Voynich stars" (f68r1 and f68r2). How many of those would be null labels, according to your theory? f68r2 has some stars unlabeled, instead of null-labeled. Why? You can't but notice that this immediately shifts away from the "best odds" approach. Actually, the null-label theory in itself is not "best-odds", I guess

Thinking about previous discussions on labels,and otol in particular, I reckon nouns do not fit, adjectives seem more likely but its got to be a fairly general property that fits both stars and plants.

My idea has been that prefixes such as o-, qo-, y- serve as relational operators, this discussion is found elsewhere in the forum. In that case, many labels would be nouns-operated-upon, rather than simply nouns in nominative case.