pfeaster > 16-03-2024, 04:28 PM
Emma May Smith > 16-03-2024, 06:30 PM
pfeaster > 17-03-2024, 02:39 PM
(16-03-2024, 06:30 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
- Every word (or most) must contain a vowel, which means that a there will be a single set of glyphs which occurs in most words. This is actually true, but these are the single glyphs [o, y] rather than a set of glyph groups. Moreover, these same glyphs are also those which can appear 1) multiple times in a word, and 2) discontinuously. A syllable cannot have more than one nucleus and the whole nucleus needs to be continuous.
Quote:It is confidently asserted that the principle of articulate notation, which forms a distinctive feature in this Steno-phonography, is a source of such absolute accuracy, simplicity, and brevity, as along place this system above any that has yet appeared. ARTICULATIONS (or Consonants) ARE WRITTEN FULL SIZE ONLY WHEN A VOWEL PRECEDES THEM. This principle is perfect in its analogy to speech. And as it informs the eye with exactitude where vowels do, and where they do not occur, it renders the writing of vowels, except when final or double, altogether unnecessary in ordinary Short-hand. It gives such a distinctiveness of outline to almost every word, that without vowel marks, and independently of context, the mind is enabled to fix at once on the precise word intended, without the memory being burdened with lists of arbitrary logograms.
cvetkakocj@rogers.com > 17-03-2024, 03:47 PM
ReneZ > Yesterday, 12:52 AM
(16-03-2024, 04:28 PM)pfeaster Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've been continuing to play around with the idea that some of the strange properties of Voynichese could be explained in terms of the workings of a syllabic encoding scheme. I decided to try writing up my latest version of this "syllabic hypothesis," not proposing any specific solution (I don't have one), but just outlining the general kind of mechanism I can imagine having been in play.
nablator > Yesterday, 10:42 AM
(Yesterday, 12:52 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I 'cheated' in a sense, in that I used a plain text in Italian rather than Latin. Italian has a much cleaner split of the text in vowels and consonants, and it was relatively easy to come up with a mapping of Voynichese 'clusters' into vowels and consonants.
pfeaster > 8 hours ago
(Yesterday, 12:52 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've been long attracted to the same idea, and I haven't yet given up on it.
This resulted in an informal 'paper' which is at academia.edu, and which I believe I have also summarised here.