A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text

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To give a specific fictional example, imagine a constructed language where the vocabulary is expanded as needed while writing the text (similar to how a nomenclator would be populated), where new concepts are introduced by modifying words for already existing concepts according to some loose rules (essentially this is not unlike how many Chinese characters work). Suppose the text is talking about heat and denotes heat as daiin. On the next page a word for fire is needed, so we use a loose rule of adding o- for intensification and call it odaiin. Then if we need a word for scorching, but odaiin is already taken, so we pop on some extra disambiguation prefix like qodaiin.

By the way, to make it less anachronistic, we can think of this not as of a constructed language, but as a mnemonic nomenclator. The main problem with the nomenclator ciphers, as I understand it, they are very hard to read and write since there is no connection between the code and the word. However, if new codes are extensions of related existing codes, this provides built in mnemonics (daiin words are all related to heat) and ease of lookup both ways. When writing a word related to heat you have to look it up on the 'daiin' page of the nomenclator and when decoding word 'olchedaiin' you will know to look it up on the 'daiin' page too, instead of keeping two separate word to index and index to word dictionaries. Again, similar to how Chinese character radicals work.