Re: 8200 Voynichese Words

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> 
>     >   Suppose the 8200-word dictionary was caused by:
>     >
>     > 1) A lax orthography, as most orthographies of the time
>     > were, and
>     >
>     > 2)  the majority of the tokens are one syllable, but
>     > some are two or three syllables, not necessarily from
>     > the same word.
>     >
>     >   Do you have any info that would enlighten these
>     > possibilities?
> 
> Well, those are basically the main straws the Chinese Theory is
> desperately clinging to...

	And the syllabic hypothesis in general.  On Sept. 27,
2000:

> Jacques Guy wrote:
> 
> > Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> 
> >  On the other hand, the KMC structure is not unlike the structure of
> > > single *syllables* in Latin and other natural languages. Syllable
> > > boundaries are partly a matter of convention; but, off of my head, I
> > > would guess that the Latin syllable can be said to have the general
> > > structure SCRVVN where all letters are optional except for one V; and
> > > S, R, and N are specific subsets of the consonnats:
> > >
> > >   in prin ci pio cre a vit de us cae lum et te rram
> > >   te rra au tem e rat i na nis et va cu a et te ne brae
> > >   su per fa ci em a by ssi ...
> > >
> > Look, I know  Latin, I know Chinese. The pattern you have uncovered
> > looks
> > strikingly like Chinese. Latin? Let  me scratch my head.  Scratch...
> > scratch...
> > scratch... scratch... er.... scratch... scratch... please don't wait
> > for me.

	Yep.  

> If no one is willing to do this analysis, I plan to do it after
> the school semester is over. (Due to past strikes, that means sometime
> in february 2001...).

	It sounds good to me!  I look forward to seeing your
results.  I doubt that I'll have the time to do it, nor
the expertise.  You're our champion number-cruncher!

Dennis