Grammatical Gender
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(03-05-2025, 12:34 AM)anyasophira wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(04-04-2025, 12:03 PM)RadioFM wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't think the grammatical structure will be made visible by just rewriting prefixes and suffixes. Any mapping from a prefix or suffix to syllables or any morpheme will render reduplications like qokeedy qokedy qokeedy a bunch of nonsense, and it was already discussed iirc that using characters e.g. edy as markers would make the plain text also repetitive, as the grammatical case marked by say, edy, would be used way too frequently for the languages we are considering, whatever that grammatical case may be

Could you help me understand. I’m new. as markers would make the plain text also repetitive,

What do you mean by markers and by plain text. Thank you!!!

Sure.
Plaintext = decoded text.
By "markers" I mean sequences of characters attached to a base form of a word that convey additional lexical information, kinda like morphemes in my view but in a code/ciphery way. So you could come up with a cipher in which the word "do" and "jump" are encoded "sch" and "datch" respectively, and their past tense is just encoded by appending the character y at the end of the verb, so "did" is "schy" and "jumped" "datchy".

By 'repetitive' I'm referring to the fact that if the Voynich manuscript were using a similar encoding scheme, some verb tenses or word inflections would be greatly overrepresented while others severely underrepresented, to the point that it wouldn't match the frequencies commonly found in latin, any romance or germanic language.

Now, because I never bothered to personally check these stats and can't remember exactly where I read that factoid (maybe some of the papers mentioned in this thread, voynich.nu, this forum or D'Imperio's Voynich: An Elegant Enigma), I'd suggest you take my claim with a grain of salt.
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Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 04-04-2025, 08:12 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by RadioFM - 04-04-2025, 12:03 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by anyasophira - 03-05-2025, 12:34 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by RadioFM - 03-05-2025, 06:44 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Koen G - 04-04-2025, 12:15 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 26-04-2025, 09:59 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Koen G - 26-04-2025, 10:35 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by RadioFM - 04-04-2025, 12:32 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by davidd - 20-04-2025, 05:19 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by RobGea - 20-04-2025, 11:54 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 22-04-2025, 11:01 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 22-04-2025, 11:28 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 23-04-2025, 02:09 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 23-04-2025, 09:52 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 24-04-2025, 01:21 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by MarcoP - 23-04-2025, 08:06 AM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 24-04-2025, 01:45 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 24-04-2025, 02:09 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 24-04-2025, 02:28 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 24-04-2025, 04:42 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 24-04-2025, 06:44 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by ReneZ - 24-04-2025, 06:48 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by cvetkakocj@rogers.com - 26-04-2025, 01:48 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 26-04-2025, 05:05 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 26-04-2025, 06:22 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Dobri - 26-04-2025, 06:34 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by Ruby Novacna - 26-04-2025, 08:40 PM
RE: Grammatical Gender - by cvetkakocj@rogers.com - 26-04-2025, 11:33 PM

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