A possible way to break down Voynich text

[ThomasCoon]

Hi Thomas,

In my opinion, the key point in approaching the Voynichese text is that we don't know the real Voynich alphabet. E.g., we don't know whether iin stands for three characters or one character, whether l stands for one character or two characters (i plus a tail modifier), etc.

Hey Anton. That is true - we may not know which characters are original and which are modifications - but we can also see where each character appears in relation to each other - and this is usable data. Statistically some characters cannot be the same because they appear in very different circumstances. l for example appears in completely different environments than y so I really doubt they are the same. But m appears in many of the same places as y and also looks similar to it in the text - and this is something I only realized after trying to figure out what combinations y could join in.

Here are three examples where m looks like y with an extra loop at the top:

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Also, I claimed yesterday that <Sh> = <se>.

<s> characters are clearly made of two strokes many times: one that looks like a "c" and then a swirling descender. When <Sh> is written, there is also a "c"-like shape and a swirling descender:



I know that this is not conclusive evidence, but in my "units" theory, <S> works exactly where <s> does, including in combinations like <Sy>