"There is the important question whether the underlay-to-overlay (plain text to Voynichese) translation is sequential. In other words, shall we read it left-to-right, top-to bottom, and not in some interleaved fashion. If yes (and some points, including here the very existence of such objects as standalone labels, suggest this), then the question for gallows (especially for non-concept gallows) is:
What is it that is very often found in the beginning of paragraphs, but never in the end?
Articles is one ready suggestion. As we see, it does not withstand critique, unless perhaps, a given article is a frequent n-gram per se. E.g., in English "the" is an article, and also we have "the" in "they", "then", "breathe" etc.
What else?
Capital letters?
Digits?
There is also a curious peculiarity of which I'm not sure if it was ever discussed or not.
I call it the gallows' "coverage", and it is observed both in paragraphs (in the beginning and within) and in labels. It is observed with both plain and benched gallows, and sometimes in a mixed way.
What is it?
Imagine, for instance, a p. Then have a look at e.g. the beginning of f10v, which is either paiin.daiin or paiindaiin (does not matter). The leading p is not a simple p, but a p with its loop curiously extended rightwards, thus extending over (or "covering") aiin.d (or at least aiin). One may argue that this is simply an embellishment. OK. Have a look at f10r. The leading p covers chocthy.shor; the next two p's do not seem to cover anything, or probably they cover only the subsequent c. The fourth p, however, clearly covers two characters - ch. Is it embellishment, or we have an additional layer of complexity here?
Next, recall those strange t's with their legs in different places (denoted "weird" in my title post). An example would be seen in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which begins (presumably) with otchal.chchsty, but there are no two t's, but one t with its left leg in the first word and its right leg in the second. This can be considered as the t covering chal.chchs.
Consider You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which begins with foar. Is not a loop in f restrictedly narrow? Well, it looks so - so as not to cover the following oar (which suggests that the loop may have been added to the vertical line after oar was already in place).
Note that very often there is a "semi-space" after the plain p and f gallows, which is hard to decide upon whether it is a Voynichese space or not. For example, see the same f6r, last p in line 1. There is a somewhat increased spacing after chop and before chol, which makes us wonder if it is chopchol or chop.chol. The idea of "coverage" suggests that it is chopchol, only the increased spacing after p is intentional to show that p does not cover the following c.
There are still more complicated examples of "coverage", such as those with additional loops (see e.g. f68r1 or the beginning of f95v1). In the terminology of my title post, those are gallows both "embellished" and "weird".
So it looks like that both additional loops and "coverage" matter. So are we back to the "concept"? For what except a "concept" can embrace or "cover" a sequence of subsequent (sorry!) characters?
What is it that is very often found in the beginning of paragraphs, but never in the end?
Articles is one ready suggestion. As we see, it does not withstand critique, unless perhaps, a given article is a frequent n-gram per se. E.g., in English "the" is an article, and also we have "the" in "they", "then", "breathe" etc.
What else?
Capital letters?
Digits?
There is also a curious peculiarity of which I'm not sure if it was ever discussed or not.
I call it the gallows' "coverage", and it is observed both in paragraphs (in the beginning and within) and in labels. It is observed with both plain and benched gallows, and sometimes in a mixed way.
What is it?
Imagine, for instance, a p. Then have a look at e.g. the beginning of f10v, which is either paiin.daiin or paiindaiin (does not matter). The leading p is not a simple p, but a p with its loop curiously extended rightwards, thus extending over (or "covering") aiin.d (or at least aiin). One may argue that this is simply an embellishment. OK. Have a look at f10r. The leading p covers chocthy.shor; the next two p's do not seem to cover anything, or probably they cover only the subsequent c. The fourth p, however, clearly covers two characters - ch. Is it embellishment, or we have an additional layer of complexity here?
Next, recall those strange t's with their legs in different places (denoted "weird" in my title post). An example would be seen in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which begins (presumably) with otchal.chchsty, but there are no two t's, but one t with its left leg in the first word and its right leg in the second. This can be considered as the t covering chal.chchs.
Consider You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which begins with foar. Is not a loop in f restrictedly narrow? Well, it looks so - so as not to cover the following oar (which suggests that the loop may have been added to the vertical line after oar was already in place).
Note that very often there is a "semi-space" after the plain p and f gallows, which is hard to decide upon whether it is a Voynichese space or not. For example, see the same f6r, last p in line 1. There is a somewhat increased spacing after chop and before chol, which makes us wonder if it is chopchol or chop.chol. The idea of "coverage" suggests that it is chopchol, only the increased spacing after p is intentional to show that p does not cover the following c.
There are still more complicated examples of "coverage", such as those with additional loops (see e.g. f68r1 or the beginning of f95v1). In the terminology of my title post, those are gallows both "embellished" and "weird".
So it looks like that both additional loops and "coverage" matter. So are we back to the "concept"? For what except a "concept" can embrace or "cover" a sequence of subsequent (sorry!) characters?
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