What is the current status of the transcription?

[Mark Knowles]

Hello Mark,

This is a very interesting point.

We agree that transcription uncertainty (especially regarding spaces and ambiguous glyphs) can strongly affect statistical analysis.

However, in our observations, some structural patterns seem to persist even when allowing for a degree of transcription variability.

For example:
- certain token families remain contextually separated rather than merging into a single interchangeable group
- suffixes such as -dy / -ody continue to show clustering and position-dependent behavior
- these effects appear across different sections, even when considering possible segmentation ambiguity

This makes us wonder whether some of the perceived "errors" or inconsistencies might not come only from imperfect transcription, but also from underlying structural constraints that are not immediately visible.

In other words, even with a more flexible transcription, some regularities might remain, suggesting that part of the system is independent of exact glyph interpretation.

We would be very interested in your view on whether such structural stability could coexist with transcription ambiguity.

My research is focused on the more rare and unusual words as I believe that most of the Voynich text is comprised of filler words, maybe 80%, and the remaining 20% is real text. This is what some might term a stegnographic interpretation. So, I am much more interested in the vords with more distinctive spellings. I published a first draft document on this, but I will publish a more complete document as soon as possible.