Voynich Reconsidered

[nablator]

Further thoughts on the v112 transliteration of the Voynich manuscript, and applications to medieval Latin, Italian and Galician-Portuguese. 

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Hello Mr. Edwards,

word parsing according to Massimiliano Zattera’s “slot alphabet”

The first word of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be parsed as:
pShe oky
or
pSheo ky

The potential is perhaps enough to justify continuing the experiments with alternative transliterations and with glyph and letter frequencies.

It is useless to try and match frequencies before matching entropy. Without reducing the entropy of the plaintext first (especially conditional character entropy) a one-to-one mapping (that preserves entropy) is guaranteed to fail. Having the frequent patterns ch iin etc. as single letters of the v112 alphabet is not enough.

Old news, but still worth pointing out when so many researchers keep trying the same experiment that is doomed to fail.

I see that you are considering You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., that would be one way to lower conditional entropy without changing letter frequencies. Not sure how the transformation could be applied to any word (the Zattera sequence does not allow any number of a given glyph), and why would anyone want to do that, when a reversible anagramming method would be more useful: not ambiguous and easier to apply consistently?