24-02-2026, 06:31 PM
(21-02-2026, 03:19 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.None: glyphs are not letters. Calling them letters presupposes a simple substitution is possible.
No it doesn't? Saying that each symbol represents a letter does not presuppose that the configuration of those letters are the final plaintext.
Mapping qokeedy -> qokeedy does not presuppose that "qokeedy" is the original, unaltered plaintext. For all we know, the voynich author may have genuinely meant to write "qokeedy" as the encoded ciphertext, but wrote each letter as a different glyph (1-1 substitution).