ThomasCoon > 07-07-2016, 10:00 PM
Anton > 07-07-2016, 11:47 PM
ThomasCoon > 09-09-2016, 12:33 AM
-JKP- > 09-09-2016, 01:36 AM
(09-09-2016, 12:33 AM)ThomasCoon Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In the spirit of collaboration, here are two things I've noticed:
1. o can appear next to almost every other Voynich letter and frequent combinations (and it is the only Voynich letter that can do this):
oe, qo, ot, ok, or, oy, om, oi, oiin, of, op, os, oo, oa, ol, oSh
2. I made a chart of the qo- words. It is not a full chart, but it should be helpful to someone researching this topic:
ThomasCoon > 09-09-2016, 02:56 AM
Emma May Smith > 09-09-2016, 09:57 AM
ReneZ > 09-09-2016, 10:22 AM
Davidsch > 09-09-2016, 12:07 PM
(09-09-2016, 10:22 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.......It's very easy to show this, perhaps I have even put it online somewhere.
given that the label words should be individual words, and they primarily tend to appear in the main text separated by spaces, it seems that the spaces are real.
The problem is that I have never seen anyone really demonstrating this.
This would be a bit of work, but not too difficult to do and it might really tell us something.
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ThomasCoon > 09-09-2016, 12:44 PM
(09-09-2016, 09:57 AM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't understand what the argument is for arbitrary spaces. Word structure is very strong and character position is often dependent on beginning, middle, and end.
Given that the writer of the manuscript was familiar with the concept of the word divider we must begin from the assumption that he was using it to divide words. There needs to be a strong argument contrary to this before we discard them as arbitrary.
Word structure is such a strong feature that it is one of the few problems in the text that we can easily think about. Starting by discarding it leaves us much worse off.
MarcoP > 09-09-2016, 01:15 PM