Re:Another Look at the Voynich Manuscript
by addaon on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:42PM
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Or, it's a scriptio continua like classical greek and latin, and line breaks are permitted in the middle of words.
Its doable http://tom7.org/bovex/
Re:Another Look at the Voynich Manuscript
by singularity2001 on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:16AM
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short words would be consistent with the serious analysis that the language has to be tonal, Which rules out all European languages and Mostly leaves meso American or sinitic languages; which would be possible as an extra chapter to il millione, the travel report of Marco Polo, albeit reproduced and illustrated in a European context and style
On a lot of the pages, the text is highly compressed against the illustrations. If you’re writing English you would find this hard to do, because you would need to insert a line break before a word if it’s too long. I couldn’t find any examples where the text overlapped the illustrations. That suggests to me that words are either very short, or graphemes themselves are words. Or, that the text is a meaningless hoax, because it doesn’t adhere to any rules and can be squashed against the illustrations easily.