16-05-2026, 01:00 PM
I wrote the following for my dad as a way to help provide some grounding for my syllabic contractions theory.
It might be of interest to others here too. I think that the AVA alphabet based on recognised plant names, may help to provide an improved way to recognise such syllabic contractions.
Decoding and encoding of high stakes information
A primer on encodings and decoding info in a modern setting.
To help understand the manner in which information is thought to exist in the Voynich manuscript, it can be worthwhile to examine modern day examples that use a very similar system.
Such systems are in professional use today so that skilled people can benefit from the cloaked information, while keeping what it means out of the hands of the uninitiated.
Decoding
The hospital is an effective modern example of cloaking terms for procedural brevity, which helps to create a professional barrier, and prevent patient panic.
Syllabic Contractions: STAT . R . TT
Technical: Emergent right tube thoracostomy
Instruction: Hurry up and put a tube in his chest before his right lung completely fails!
An elevated instruction to be sure. The cloaked instruction helps to provide a professional barrier, and also results in preventing patients from panicking.
To the unskilled, they might know that STAT means fast, but if they see or hear PTX they would have no mental library from which to expand it to its actual meaning.
Encoding
When the military are in the field, they might need to get something done quite urgently.
Instruction: Drop a bomb right now on that building, even though it’s very close to us.
Technical: Close Air Support. Danger Close. Target Reference Point 102.
Syllabic Contractions: CAS . DC . TRP102
Coded: Standard Charlie-Alpha-Sierra protocols in effect. Maintain Delta-Charlie clearance for Tango-Romeo-Papa one-zero-two.
Even though this military coded is relatively thin, it helps to act as a credentials check in that it helps to identify the speaker as being a validated user. If a voice came over the radio saying, "Hey, drop some bombs near the big rock at point 102," the commander would likely give second thought to the instructions.
It might be of interest to others here too. I think that the AVA alphabet based on recognised plant names, may help to provide an improved way to recognise such syllabic contractions.
Decoding and encoding of high stakes information
A primer on encodings and decoding info in a modern setting.
To help understand the manner in which information is thought to exist in the Voynich manuscript, it can be worthwhile to examine modern day examples that use a very similar system.
Such systems are in professional use today so that skilled people can benefit from the cloaked information, while keeping what it means out of the hands of the uninitiated.
Decoding
The hospital is an effective modern example of cloaking terms for procedural brevity, which helps to create a professional barrier, and prevent patient panic.
Syllabic Contractions: STAT . R . TT
Technical: Emergent right tube thoracostomy
Instruction: Hurry up and put a tube in his chest before his right lung completely fails!
An elevated instruction to be sure. The cloaked instruction helps to provide a professional barrier, and also results in preventing patients from panicking.
To the unskilled, they might know that STAT means fast, but if they see or hear PTX they would have no mental library from which to expand it to its actual meaning.
Encoding
When the military are in the field, they might need to get something done quite urgently.
Instruction: Drop a bomb right now on that building, even though it’s very close to us.
Technical: Close Air Support. Danger Close. Target Reference Point 102.
Syllabic Contractions: CAS . DC . TRP102
Coded: Standard Charlie-Alpha-Sierra protocols in effect. Maintain Delta-Charlie clearance for Tango-Romeo-Papa one-zero-two.
Even though this military coded is relatively thin, it helps to act as a credentials check in that it helps to identify the speaker as being a validated user. If a voice came over the radio saying, "Hey, drop some bombs near the big rock at point 102," the commander would likely give second thought to the instructions.