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18-03-2024, 01:50 PM (This post was last modified: 18-03-2024, 05:46 PM by nablator.)
(16-03-2024, 02:37 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My personal approach has been my own subjective judgement on a case-by-case basis taking into account the surrounding context - how loose or how tight are the surrounding glyphs placed. This means that I would avoid reading a space even if that yields something contrary to the "usual" Voynichese morphology.

It is not uncommon to find places with several consecutive ambiguous spaces. There is no obvious reason to choose just one interpretation.

A few examples:

   

   

Lost in transliteration because Takeshi-san used his own subjective judgement instead of objective distance:

   
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Ambiguous Spaces - by Emma May Smith - 12-03-2024, 11:18 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by ReneZ - 12-03-2024, 11:52 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Emma May Smith - 13-03-2024, 01:59 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by ReneZ - 13-03-2024, 07:14 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Aga Tentakulus - 13-03-2024, 05:31 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by davidjackson - 13-03-2024, 07:07 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Juan_Sali - 13-03-2024, 12:09 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Bernd - 13-03-2024, 05:30 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by nablator - 13-03-2024, 06:17 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Aga Tentakulus - 13-03-2024, 08:37 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by RobGea - 13-03-2024, 09:12 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by pfeaster - 13-03-2024, 09:25 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Emma May Smith - 13-03-2024, 10:29 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by pfeaster - 14-03-2024, 01:34 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Hider - 14-03-2024, 10:03 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by ReneZ - 14-03-2024, 01:51 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Emma May Smith - 14-03-2024, 03:35 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Koen G - 14-03-2024, 09:47 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Emma May Smith - 14-03-2024, 08:54 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by dashstofsk - 14-03-2024, 02:04 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Koen G - 14-03-2024, 09:31 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by MarcoP - 14-03-2024, 10:12 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by ReneZ - 15-03-2024, 12:53 AM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by nablator - 15-03-2024, 06:04 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Aga Tentakulus - 15-03-2024, 09:49 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Anton - 16-03-2024, 02:37 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by nablator - 18-03-2024, 01:50 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by Aga Tentakulus - 16-03-2024, 08:13 PM
RE: Ambiguous Spaces - by MarcoP - 19-03-2024, 09:49 AM

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