[Interview] Can statistics help crack the mysterious Voynich manuscript?

[nickpelling]

Again, that wasn't even remotely what I was posting about. The fifteenth century saw the tail-end (if you'll excuse the pun) of Tironian-style abbreviation use, but modern shorthand systems (Bright et al) were still a century away.

What filled the gap between the two were local contraction/abbreviating shorthand systems, and that is the corpus that nobody has put together that I'm forever looking for.

Aggressive contraction/abbreviation has - when combined with verbose cipher - many, many of the features of Voynichese. However, the primary writing surface for tachygraphic note-taking was the wax tablet, so we're very short of practical examples. :-(

[Aga Tentakulus]

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[joben]

This is a really good interview.

Anyone new to the Voynich rabbithole will benefit greatly from reading it. I think Claire & co is doing a really good job!

[Maria Rita Lunazzi]

La statistica non è utile per decifrare il manoscritto

[Koen G]

La statistica non è utile per decifrare il manoscritto

Why not? 

(please post in English only on the forum, you can use something like Google translate if you like).