What are Voynichese words?

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Both y and l tend toward final positions

y and  l together with  q, r, n, s are characters that seem to prefer to come either at the start of a word or at the end. This is curious. But I can see a pattern, and I hope you will be able to see it also if you look how these letters are written. They are usually written ended with a marked downstroke or with a backswing. And if you look at the words in the manuscript you will see plenty of this: first and last characters exaggerated, characters mid-word not so much.


                           


It suggests to me that this is just a preference of the writer. He likes to start a word with a bang, then continues with simple characters, then likes to end with a bang. Having to write a character with an exaggeration mid-word would have the effect of upsetting the momentum of the writing.

And do you wonder why  q and  f never come at the end? I have an idea why this is so. It is because these characters are awkward to write. Too many strokes of the pen. Once the writer is approaching the end of a word he wants to finish it as quickly as possible and then move on. It is just how he is driven.

This is all consistent with the hypothesis that the manuscript is meaningless, a hoax, an artificial construction. The writer, having pages of bogus text to write, would have wanted to simplify the task. And either intentionally or by accident adopted a writing style that made the task of writing less demanding.