05-09-2022, 09:39 AM
I don't quite see how your conclusion follows from the observation (which is not new).
There are many possible reasons for recurring labels:
* Labels may be something like dates. A star might appear in August, and a plant may be best picked in August. Bathing might be recommended on the same days, etc. This is not necessarily the case (we don't know yet), but it is one example. In short, labels for plants and stars and nymphs may refer to the same external thing, without expressing any relation between the plant, star and nymph.
* The encoding system may not use nouns at all, but for example numbers that refer to external lists. (If this is the case, we will never solve the MS unless the lists are found). Number 15 on the list of plants could be different from number 15 on the list of stars, but both will be labelled Voynichese's equivalent of "15".
* Last but not least, the encoding system is likely to be "reductive" somehow (Voynichese's low character entropy). Different plaintext words may result in the same cipher word.
There are many possible reasons for recurring labels:
* Labels may be something like dates. A star might appear in August, and a plant may be best picked in August. Bathing might be recommended on the same days, etc. This is not necessarily the case (we don't know yet), but it is one example. In short, labels for plants and stars and nymphs may refer to the same external thing, without expressing any relation between the plant, star and nymph.
* The encoding system may not use nouns at all, but for example numbers that refer to external lists. (If this is the case, we will never solve the MS unless the lists are found). Number 15 on the list of plants could be different from number 15 on the list of stars, but both will be labelled Voynichese's equivalent of "15".
* Last but not least, the encoding system is likely to be "reductive" somehow (Voynichese's low character entropy). Different plaintext words may result in the same cipher word.