geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory

[geoffreycaveney]

I just want to make a brief comment here for readers of various threads on this forum, that while the discussion of "Input data accuracy" is quite interesting in its own right and well worth studying, I consider it highly and extremely unlikely that this could possibly be a decisive factor in the evaluation of the correctness or incorrectness of my theory of the Voynich MS text as a Yorkist English cipher text written in Middle English and in French. I use the standard and popular Takahashi transcription for consistency and to avoid introducing my own bias into the reading of the Voynich characters themselves, precisely because I am well aware that certain other degrees of freedom must unavoidably be introduced in the ensuing steps of my interpretation process. Yes, there may well be a small number of minor imprecisions and inaccuracies in Takahaski's transcription; indeed, there may be such imprecisions and inaccuracies in any such transcription. And yes, these may affect a small number of minor details of my reading and interpretation of lines of text in the MS. Such things cannot be avoided at this stage of this process, because the exact correct transcription will not become clear, if it ever does, until after the meaning of the MS script and text is definitively determined. 

If my theory is right, the small number of errors in minor details of the Takahashi transcription are extremely unlikely to obscure the large-scale correctness of the reading and interpretation of the great majority of the MS text. If my theory is wrong, it will not be the possible errors in the Takahashi transcription that are the decisive criterion in making such a determination. I just want to make this point clear to all readers of this thread and the other threads currently active on this forum.

Geoffrey