Cvetka's Slovenian Theory Thread

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Together with o, it forms one of the most frequent Slovenian prefixes PO- which among other things is used to form perfective verbs, which can be in present, past and future tense. Such prefixed words can also be used for derivates, such as adjectives and nouns.

Yes, but there are far more entries in this dictionary (dated 1781) for words starting with PA, PE, PI, PL, PR, PU, PY. This is exactly what Koen's video is about: the next letter given the current letter is much more predictable in Voynichese than in any European language. I haven't seen any evidence that P is almost always initial in some dialect of 15th century Slovenian, that it does not use (or rarely uses) A E I L R U Y after initial P or that most of them can be written O without loosing meaning. Why would they even consider doing that in a supposedly unenciphered/unobfuscated text? Compressing the alphabet does help reduce the entropy but it is not a reasonable option.

You need to see the actual evidence in existing 15th century Slovenian manuscripts: letter statistics do not match Voynichese, not even remotely. Contrary to popular opinion, there is such a thing as negative evidence. To have a balanced opinion you need to consider all the evidence, not cherry-pick the evidence that seems to support your claim.

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