Floating gallows

[RenegadeHealer]

At the risk of either stating the obvious or otherwise not contributing:

A logical explanation is that the gallows don't function the same each time they are used.  Certainly the idea of classifying a word differently depending on whether it exists only with or both with and without a gallows has been suggested before (e.g. the nebulous Grove words).  

Is it possible that the actual function of the gallows changes and that change can been seen depending on whether it is a "necessary" component of word to make it a "valid" Voynichese word as compared to a component that can be placed anywhere within an otherwise "valid word"?

I'm sure it is not lost on anyone that the second of these two "functions," actually a non-function, is a null.

Is there some way to test whether the possible function of gallows that move within otherwise "valid" words is acting as a null?

I’ll take the risk of contributing even less than you, and just point out that in Cham & Jackson’s Curve-Line System for breaking down Voynichese, gallows are “invisible” — non-entities, essentially, which have no effect on a vord’s behavior and parsing by this system.

The Curve-Line Paradigm, as I understand it, was posited to explain the basic design of the writing or notation system. Its application and relevance to finding meaningful content encoded by this system is not clear, and my understanding is that Cham & Jackson appear to lean towards a meaningless, stochastically generated pseudotext being most likely.

But meaningful or not, my point is that nablator’s concept of the Floating Gallows meshes surprisingly nicely with Cham & Jackson’s place for the gallows character in their system for breaking down Voynichese: its presence and exact placement appears to be an independent variable, neither constrained by, nor having any influence over, the arrangement of all the other characters in a vord.