(28-10-2023, 10:26 AM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(28-10-2023, 09:11 AM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So, if this herbal does split the words using the stem, there is no reason to believe this was impossible in the Voynich manuscript.
There is. What we don't see in the VMS is evidence of vord-splitting where there should be, that would be recognizable because Voynichese is very positional. There are some unusual endings like -cTy, -ss but no split endings -iin, -dy, -or, -ar, -ol, -al. Unusual vord endings like -ch, -Sh, -e and unattached endings (curiously more common in Currier-B) are found in random places, not at the end of lines and before interruptions, where they should be more common than elsewhere.
I'm not sure I fully understand this argument. First of all, you mentioned -dy and -ar, they both appear twice as isolated strings between image elements:
Code:
# extracting all strings up to 2 EVA characters long that appear between image markers <-> in zl.txt
> cat zl.txt | egrep -o "<->[a-z.,]{1,3}<->"
<->sy.<->
<->ar.<->
<->ok.<->
<->dy.<->
<->yk.<->
<->ar.<->
<->o.<->
<->sy.<->
<->sy.<->
<->sy.<->
<->s.<->
<->dy.<->Also, _ok_ and _yk_ are very unusual way to terminate a Voynich word. Overall, just looking at these 12 examples, half of them look exactly as Voynich word pieces/endings would look like.