10-05-2024, 04:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2024, 04:30 AM by HermesRevived.)
If the Universal Template is the relevant template then the rules of Voynichese will be implicit in the template, necessarily.
The first and golden rule will be: the preferred glyph combinations are those that move the text towards the paradigms, QOKEEDY and CHOLDAIIN.
Forbidden combinations are those that prevent the text from resolving into the paradigms.
We can extrapolate the more specific rules from the paradigms themselves. The rules are dictated by the paradigms.
Valid words - attested or otherwise - conform, and invalid words do not.
In the example given by Patrick in this thread, [qokeeokeedy] can be constructed from QOKEEDY. [iinqeeadk] cannot, and does not follow from any natural combination of the paradigms.
What is a natural combination?
An example: [qokaiin] is a valid word but [aiinqok] is not. In natural combinations the prefix-suffix order is preserved.
What is the relationship between the two paradigms? (Why are there two, anyway? Why do they overlap in the benched glyphs?) We can work out the rules by answering that question. That must follow from the template, logically.
(An important thing to notice is that QOKEEDY is tripartite bigrams, QO + KEE + DY, whereas CHOLDAIIN bifurcates into trigrams, CHOL + DAIIN. Many tangles of the text are the result of that tension and there must be rules concerning it.)
QOKEEDY adheres into tripartite forms. CHOLDAIIN fragments. QOKEEDY is continuous and cyclic. CHOLDAIIN is discontinuous. Thus the rule: [y] can appear at the start or end of words, but [iin] can only be final. We discern that rule from the paradigms.
Natural combinations also preserve CV alternation, although the two paradigms have different patterns. QOKEEDY has perfect CV alternation (with doubled vowel, VV) but CHOLDAIIN is bifurcated by CC combinations.
The first and golden rule will be: the preferred glyph combinations are those that move the text towards the paradigms, QOKEEDY and CHOLDAIIN.
Forbidden combinations are those that prevent the text from resolving into the paradigms.
We can extrapolate the more specific rules from the paradigms themselves. The rules are dictated by the paradigms.
Valid words - attested or otherwise - conform, and invalid words do not.
In the example given by Patrick in this thread, [qokeeokeedy] can be constructed from QOKEEDY. [iinqeeadk] cannot, and does not follow from any natural combination of the paradigms.
What is a natural combination?
An example: [qokaiin] is a valid word but [aiinqok] is not. In natural combinations the prefix-suffix order is preserved.
What is the relationship between the two paradigms? (Why are there two, anyway? Why do they overlap in the benched glyphs?) We can work out the rules by answering that question. That must follow from the template, logically.
(An important thing to notice is that QOKEEDY is tripartite bigrams, QO + KEE + DY, whereas CHOLDAIIN bifurcates into trigrams, CHOL + DAIIN. Many tangles of the text are the result of that tension and there must be rules concerning it.)
QOKEEDY adheres into tripartite forms. CHOLDAIIN fragments. QOKEEDY is continuous and cyclic. CHOLDAIIN is discontinuous. Thus the rule: [y] can appear at the start or end of words, but [iin] can only be final. We discern that rule from the paradigms.
Natural combinations also preserve CV alternation, although the two paradigms have different patterns. QOKEEDY has perfect CV alternation (with doubled vowel, VV) but CHOLDAIIN is bifurcated by CC combinations.