[Blog Post] Rightward and Downward in the Voynich Manuscript - Patrick Feaster

[Emma May Smith]

Hi Patrick, I don't think you're at all mistaken that the existence of these continuous changes in distribution could throw a monkey wrench into some theories! I'm very interested in them, and my comments (and any future comments) are based on a desire to get this right. I would like it to be explained in some other way, by an unaccounted factor, but that's not how research works. We have to observe and then account for those observations.

I'll see if I can write a little programme myself tonight (I doubt I'm as quick as you or Marco though) and bring some additional numbers. I have an idea of doing it a little differently so at least it will bring a slightly new angle.

A few things which interest me: does every possible glyph pair have a rightward difference? Are some pairs significantly more than different than others? And are there clear most/least rightward glyphs? I suppose my concern is that, if this is systemic, what does that mean? Does that make it more or less likely to be an artifact or a phenomenon?