On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment)
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(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.

Thank you Koen - I believe that digraphs and some monographs are the solution, but I have no idea how it works Wink


(10-09-2016, 11:46 AM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.

Emma, how would you interpret this example that I posted in the other thread? Here Voynich doesn't seem to represent a language with 1-to-2 syllable words, but rather an agglutinative language that keeps adding suffixes (and maybe prefixes)?

qot
qoteo
qoteol
qotcho
qotchol
qotcheo
qotcheol
qotol

qok
qokor
qokeor
qokeeor
qokchor
qokcheor
qokeeeor
qokeee

qok
qokar
qokear
qokeear
qokchar

daiin
odaiin
qodaiin
chodaiin
qochodaiin
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RE: On plain texts and ciphers (a thought experiment) - by ThomasCoon - 10-09-2016, 01:55 PM

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