Experiment: how would you transliterate the following glyphs?

[ReneZ]

This exercise can be used as a good example of what Voynich MS transliteration is about, naming about making decisions which tend to be subjective.

Going to the opening post, and the two glyphs near the bottom (that we were not asked to transcribe)...

Here, one is more likely to be interested in the meaning. Do they both mean the same or not?
What is clear is that they look different. Only once we can read the text, we can be sure if they mean the same or not. This reading is usually possible for text in latin characters in medieval manuscripts, but it doesn't quite work out that way here.

With the Voynichese characters, we are in no position to distinguish meaning. All we can do is distinguish shapes.

That is a set of two questions:
- which are the different possible shapes? (note: since they are handwritten, no two are identical, so we need to identify groups of characters that we can consider representing the same item)
- to which group does each one belong.

The answer to the first question is the more tricky one, and in this experiment, it can be addressed in two ways:
- by just looking at these 16
- by looking at (or rather: having looked at) the entire MS

Again, the answers are inevitably subjective, so there is no 'correct' answer. Even a majority vote (or average) can be wrong.

In fact, while a majority vote is likely to be the safest solution, there is likely at least one solution among the many that is better than the average. We just don't know which one. And this philosophical point does not help in any practical way.