06-06-2025, 11:00 AM
(06-06-2025, 10:53 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Over the years, I have developed an opinion, which would explain a lot of the unusual things we are seeing. This is that the text has been encoded somehow, with rules that allow for some flexibility or some choice by the encoder.
It would explain the lack of repeating sequences of words, and it could explain the differences between the various Currier or RZ languages. Furthermore, Lisa's equivalence above is one good example of it.
This could even explain the very strange behaviour of the text that Patrick Feaster has introduced here, and during his 2022 conference talk.
Interestingly enough that is the conclusion reached by the authors of the paper I linked above, basically a single voynich glyph can encode more than one "real" plaintext letter and that the choice of which glyph to use and when was ultimately up to the scribe, hence why we see different scribes using different encoding patterns. They also argue that the very small number of glyphs that are not ligatures of others points to the code being some sort of numerical code. If i remember correctly they identify 10 voynich glyphs in total that do not behave like ligatures.