(13-10-2023, 11:19 AM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is no way to count syllables unless you've actually deciphered the text.
Well, the punch line of the whole thing is that o lot of the last words of a line were just not generated with the (so far unknown ) procedure. The VMS would therefore not be "from one cast". This possible peculiarity of the last words as "filler words" also allows conjectures ( e.g. meaningless with a tendency to low syllable formation when writing ), which, related to the whole manuscript, would indeed make little sense. But, related to the concrete assumptions, one can very well examine whether conspicuously few syllables are to be found or not.
P.S.: Mapping the alphabet throughout the manuscript is, of course, easier than mapping only the last words of a line. But this should not lead to the assumption that one wants to "decode" the entire manuscript.
Note: I have only now read the changes in your last post. Sukhotin's algorithm would be quite a possibility. But I wanted to keep it as simple as possible for now.

