24-06-2022, 08:47 PM
The trouble with such stenographic shorthand is that it always develops through trial and error.
If you look at the history of such schemes -and there are a lot of them - it always starts off as something difficult and quickly evolves as proponents develop the system.
Now, in the Voynich, it seems there is just the one system that is fairly homogenous throughout.
So if there is a "system" then it's fairly well developed. Which, especially if there are several scribes, suggests a well developed scheme that has a well worked out back story. Problematic, especially when you think that if this is true, it's centuries out in front of its rivals. And, there was no need for such a scheme to be developed. Such schemes didn't start to get going for several centuries more, for the simple reason that society didn't need them.
If you look at the history of such schemes -and there are a lot of them - it always starts off as something difficult and quickly evolves as proponents develop the system.
Now, in the Voynich, it seems there is just the one system that is fairly homogenous throughout.
So if there is a "system" then it's fairly well developed. Which, especially if there are several scribes, suggests a well developed scheme that has a well worked out back story. Problematic, especially when you think that if this is true, it's centuries out in front of its rivals. And, there was no need for such a scheme to be developed. Such schemes didn't start to get going for several centuries more, for the simple reason that society didn't need them.