14-11-2025, 01:24 PM
Quote:Going back to the topic of this thread: I am still confused about what exactly LAAFU means. I see that there has been a huge amount of discussion about it,and what I have read only left me more confused.
For me LAAFU sounds more importantly and "proudly" than it really is. Like some serious, general law concering Voynich Manuscript.
In practice it just means than statistically some words appear more often at beginnings and ends of lines than in the middle.
Words which appear in the end often are ended themselves with "m" letter, so it's rather a regularity for this letter and not for these words.
We don't have any convincing explanation for it. Maybe the most convicing one is that "m" is actually a glyph of another letter which takes this form at the endings. Think of "long s" and "short s" in old texts. Long s appeared in the words as a middle letter and short s appeared as the final letter.
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And that's basically all. Also when you take a random line form the manuscript there probably won't be any LAAFU effect for it and there won't be anything special for it. LAAFU works only for minority of lines.
There are also some small effects with word length.
