04-10-2020, 05:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2020, 05:18 PM by Mark Knowles.)
(04-10-2020, 01:17 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, that's a very good question. Considering the Herbal section, we find the plants unlabeled, which is in contrast to some contemporary herbals which contain plant names as labels. Moreover, a couple of attacks with different approaches (my search for "potential plant names" and Wladimir's cross search against the Pharma section) did not succeed to indicate that plant names are there at all.
Are you saying that you think there are no names in the Voynich? Are you saying that you think there are no nouns in the Voynich?
I have seen what Wladimir has done and I am undertaking something very similar, but on a significantly larger scale as I am most interested in the small plant labels as these are the most clearly matched to specific detailed drawings and so, I think, the best for trying to understand labels.
I am very much approaching the subject as the labels being nouns and then trying to explain the peculiarities we see. Whereas it seems to me that you are interpreting the peculiarities we see as meaning they are not nouns and then are left trying to resolve what I see as the problematic implications of that.
In my own pre-existing analysis of the 9 rosettes page I was of the opinion that the labels were nouns and I still am.
I think labels are the key to understanding the strangeness that is Voynichese.