The Voynich-Ms as a concatenation of abbreviations
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(25-05-2023, 09:07 AM)Helmut Winkler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.1) The problem I have with all these observations, beginnimg with Currier is that no one can give me an explanaion
That's because they are unexplained. Smile

Even without the word length statistics by Elmar Vogt, with debatable data and interpretations, there are a lot of observations, for example these two are extremely well known:
  • m and g are mostly line-final (noticed by Prescott Currier). Could these be truncation marks, instead of -tis and -cis?
  • The distribution of the first letter of the first word of paragraph lines is quite different from other words' first-letter distribution. Link to Emma May Smith's blog: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
There are many other statistical observations on lines discussed here and on blogs, including Patrick Feaster's "rightward" statistics: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

A few anti-patterns:
  • Paragraph lines never start with cK or cF, never end with k.
  • n never starts a word, unless it is alone, at the end of a line: not a normal behavior for the Latin abbreviation. Then, and only then (3 instances) it is written with a kind of serif, curved instead of slanted: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. like... a letter 'i' with macron. What does this suggest?
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RE: The Voynich-Ms as a conatenation of abbreviations - by nablator - 25-05-2023, 01:34 PM

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