AmongTheCouch23 > 30-09-2025, 07:04 PM
Fengist > 02-11-2025, 05:56 AM
Philipp Harland > Yesterday, 09:53 AM
(02-11-2025, 05:56 AM)Fengist Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You’re closer than you might realize with the JSON analogy. The Voynich text really does behave like nested data blocks — but instead of computer syntax, it’s running on a morphological grammar.
Each “chunk” you’re seeing corresponds to a structured sequence — prefix → root → stem → postfix — that repeats predictably across sections. Think of it like JSON where:
- the prefix is the key name or domain header (defines what the data is about — e.g. herbal, astronomical, recipe),
- the root is the core “object” or concept,
- and the stems/postfixes are modifiers — like nested attributes or values.
So you’re absolutely right that the manuscript encodes information, not just prose — but it’s doing it linguistically, not programmatically. The “chunks” you noticed line up almost perfectly with the grammatical boundaries I found computationally.
In other words, your intuition about “structured information blocks” is dead-on — the only correction is that it’s not a symbolic data language; it’s an information-dense natural grammar that happens to look like one.
Koen G > Yesterday, 10:12 AM