(20-05-2026, 03:44 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Word templates like mine do not capture all the constraints we see in the actual Voynichese lexicon. No matter how we define prefix, core, and suffix, these three parts are not independent. My model specifies a couple of constraints (the counts of benches and dealers) but there are more. Your own color tables show that, for one particular core, there are prefix-suffix pairs that are twice as common as expected, or half as common. I gave a couple of more dramatic examples of "skew squares" were Fr(AKX):Fr(BKX) is very different from Fr(AKY):Fr(BKY).
While existing templates don't capture all words and the existing words only, hypothetically, if someone finds a relatively simple set of rules that would cover >95% of existing word types and would only produce < 5% of unregistered word types, is there a possibility to resolve all of this? Since I think many people have been focusing on glyph-based manipulations only, what if the right set of rules is more like "match the number of left and right semicircular curves in each word", "make sure the number of vertical lines matches the number of crossed strokes", "make sure the number of upwards flourishes per word is the same as the number of mimims"? I'm just inventing those, but given that individual characters appear to be designed by combining a few simple strokes in (almost) all possible ways, I think it wouldn't be reasonable to assume the rules, if any, can be formulated in terms of strokes and not in terms of glyphs.