Summary of Voynich Day presentation on Line Patterns

[Koen G]

Thanks, Tavie, this helps a lot. Note about the abbreviation that I was thinking exclusively about natural language. We have a very strong tendency to leave the first letter intact, since it is crucial to the identity of the word. Conversely, non-initial vowels are the easiest to omit.

I think it could still be abbreviation (shortening) in the sense that the omitted glyph is the most optional one. Like some kind of marker that can be left out or whatever.

Regarding analysis, I wonder if it would help to write some kind of "profile" for each glyph? Where is it preferred, where is it left out...