Vord verifier

[ThomasCoon]

So your theory is that this table, or something like it, was used to generate Voynich words?

Hi Emma,

I am considering the idea that the scribe may have used a table like this to produce vords, but not in a meaningless way (like the "table-and-grille" idea). I don't have an exact theory, but I've been wondering if the VMS is not linguistic text but meta-text. Perhaps each individual vord is really a set of inputs / a set of "instructions", which you then plug into some table to get a plaintext output. Perhaps something like this:

• [qo present]+[any galllows]+[ch]+[any group from column 6]+[o]+[any group from column 11] → one specific output
  
• [qo not present]+[any gallows]+[ch]+[any group from column 11]+[y] → a different specific output
  
• [qo not present]+[no gallows]+[ch]+[a/o]+[any group from column 11] → yet a third different output
  

I'm just so perplexed by all the components that seem to "switch out" for one another, like <Sh> and <ch> - but this is all speculation. Please feel free to point out holes you may see!