31-10-2025, 11:52 PM
(31-10-2025, 08:06 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That's true, though is it not odd that more or less 60% of "k" are "ok" and 60% of "t" are "ot", yet in other common(ish) pairings the stats are not like this. I think it would at least make it hard to use the first comparison as a "for" argument and not have the others be "against". . but I do tend to default to thinking of the text as a code with symbols rather than a language so this may make no sense at all for language, as you allude to.
Another thing that would be odd, in my eyes.. more "code" than "language" would be this
Thinking about this too. Even if I don't want to get into the text translation too much, because I missing so much information and it would to years to read through everything here, but I one possibility could be the use of substitution tables (nomenclators).
To combine it with my theory, you have very few words in nautical reports. Maybe around 1400-1450 Henry the Navigator used a very long substitution table to encode the reports. The words in the voynich manuscript are numbers that then refer to a word in a substitution table. Thats why we find a lot of similar words in the voynich manuscript that differ only in one letter. Then also the K and T variations would make sense. If one ist 108 and the other maybe 114, because K adds 2 to the sum and T adds 8.
Probably everyone here knows this and I think it looks even from the symbols a bit similar.
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But also with this kind of code you could encrypt things with very few signs.
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So probably everything is discussed here already and checkt over and over again. If you have just a substitution table with words, it will be very hard if you don't know the context of the book.