12-08-2021, 01:21 PM
The things to look for in a block paradigm search are words that would be difficult to express, such as proper names, numbers, even 'the' and 'and' (because we still have no idea how any of these basic linguistic concepts are expressed in Voynichese.
My expectation is that Voynichese will turn out to comprise a number of separate kinds of tricks all at the same time, such as abbreviation and steganography. Yet features such as numbers must inevitably be in there, even if we can't see them directly.
As an aside, the presence of ororor-like strings has long been suspected to flag some kind of verbose number system (e.g. with or == Roman I), so it will probably pay to err on the side of flexibility when looking. :-)
My expectation is that Voynichese will turn out to comprise a number of separate kinds of tricks all at the same time, such as abbreviation and steganography. Yet features such as numbers must inevitably be in there, even if we can't see them directly.
As an aside, the presence of ororor-like strings has long been suspected to flag some kind of verbose number system (e.g. with or == Roman I), so it will probably pay to err on the side of flexibility when looking. :-)