10-09-2016, 11:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2016, 11:53 AM by Emma May Smith.)
JKP, if you mean a pasigraphic system, then I suppose you are quite correct and that a linguistic analysis wouldn't be that helpful. But we're talking about a very limited exception. And I'm not sure that an extensive text could be written pasigraphically with such a limited character set. Something like Beck's codebook philosophical language would be needed.
I respect that as a line of research, though much like cryptological approaches I wonder if it's not demanding too much of the time period.
You know, you're one of the few people to make the observation that Voynich words are short. Most folk believe that short Voynich words are missing, when it's really not true. I believe one and two syllable words are incredibly common and make up the bulk of the text.
I respect that as a line of research, though much like cryptological approaches I wonder if it's not demanding too much of the time period.
(10-09-2016, 03:00 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Tomas: the possibility of a large number of digraphs is interesting snd would solve a lot of problems. Then you would almost certainly have to assume that most words represent one or two syllables though. Or a lsnguage with very short words. I see no problem with either one.
You know, you're one of the few people to make the observation that Voynich words are short. Most folk believe that short Voynich words are missing, when it's really not true. I believe one and two syllable words are incredibly common and make up the bulk of the text.