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RE: (qo- words) vs (y- words)...?

Hi Jim,

I have been studying what should be called "Voynichese morphology" for
about three years and know a good deal about it by now.  There are three
different groups of words in the Voynich but I do not have the numbers-
would you like to work on them?

Of course! Numbers are what we have PCs for. :-)

I find that my writing style reflects
what I do:  I sound just like a Junior High School teacher, consequently
for the serious scholarly work I need a collaborator or a ghost writer.  I
don't mind collaborating, I usually enjoy it.

Hmmm... I'd hate to think what my writing style makes me sound like. :-)

For my money we need a numbers or statistical man, someone old and
balanced to keep the conclusions close to the data, and someone young and
enthusiastic and positive.  The jobs can be shared  and can overlap.

Sounds reasonable - though starting off by decomposing the big picture into manageable tasks (to see what kind of response we get to those) might give us more idea of how feasible all this is likely to be.

If you are interested, write and I will define or describe the groups of
words.

Great! If you email me either off- or on-list, I'd be delighted to help collaborate to give the morphology some, uh, shape. :-9

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: at the very least, if this manages to give us some kind of word-structure-related metric, we might be able to identify larger paragraph- or page-sized patterns within the VMS: these kinds of structures would be an excellent sign that an underlying signal *does* exist, and that we're not merely projecting our psyches onto inkblots, Rorschach-style. :-)