(13-04-2021, 01:32 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.if the transcription makes a basic parsing mistake in the 8th line of one of the most famous passages in all of English literature, it does not inspire confidence in the statistical accuracy of the rest of the transcription and a word frequency analysis based on it.
From the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of the site hosting the transcription:
Quote:The Norman Blake Editions is a series of online editions which present full diplomatic transcriptions of the key, surviving manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
In a diplomatic transcription of Harley 7334, the word must be transcribed as "I ronne" because this is how it was written by the scribe. The goal of the site and its relevance to some Voynich researchers is exactly that it allows to compare how different scribes wrote the same text. It seems you have no idea of what a diplomatic transcription is and you make the basic mistake of criticizing things that you do not understand at all

Of course the vast majority of the occurrences of "I" in the ms correspond to the personal pronoun: this can be easily checked by anyone who cares.

