Summary of Voynich Day presentation on Line Patterns

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The Vertical Impact Behaviour is definitively new. I've never seen nor heard anybody discuss this before. I can't think of a linguistic reason, nor even any good reason.

Agreed that this is an intriguing new discovery, and all the more so because it's such a counterintuitive pattern that I doubt most people would ever have thought to test for it!

At one point, just after reading Emma and Marco's paper on word-break combinations, I briefly checked to see whether there might be any analogous anomalies among line-break combinations (end of one line - start of next line).  As far as I could tell, there mostly weren't.  But as I recall, there was at least one notable exception (calculated across the manuscript as a whole): lines ending [m] appear to be followed by lines beginning [q] only around 58% as often as they "should."  Given that lines beginning [q] also feature prominently in this Vertical Impact Effect, I wonder how these two apparent anomalies might be interacting with each other.