[split] Does Voynichese evolve from A to B?

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Okay, could you please point me to the thread where evidence is presented of gradual language change within some section?

You are moving the goalposts already. Many statistical jumps (at the paragraph, page and section level) have been documented in many threads... This is why we have statistically detected subsections by several analysts and there could be further subdivisions all the way down to pages and paragraphs that have unusual statistics: in these cases the discrepancy is only statistically significant when it is extreme, because of the smaller sample size.

For example see this thread, with an example in Q20:

For quire 20 see also my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about the distribution of vords containing the glyph combinations 'ed', 'ho', and 'in' in the VMS: "For the stars section it is even possible to point to pages dominated by vords containing 'ed' (see f111r) whereas the very next page is dominated by 'in'-vords. Even another page within the very same section contains an unusual high number of vords containing 'ho' (see f113r)."

Some examples of statistical weirdness that I mentioned in your Chinese theory thread: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

- Omit all e on two random pages: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and f36r.

- Concentrate some patterns on some pages and omit them in an entire section, for example You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has a lot of [e:h]od, [e:h]os: 14 eod, 3 hod, 2 eos, 1 hos. No [e:h]or, [e:h]ol, -eo. It is the opposite of Q13, but both are Currier language B. There are many examples of extreme concentrations and total absence of common patterns on many pages.

I could list all these many pages, but I'm now going for a walk.