Re: Plan of Attack

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:

>
>         So.  Choose three French texts of ca. 1480 (Rabelais and Montaigne are
> later, ~ 1550, so perhaps Marco Polo?), manually break them down into
> syllables, and get counts of the syllables.  Then compare the top 280
> syllables to the 280 Voynichese "words" that fit the Firth paradigm.
>
>

Are there rules for determining syllables in Old French, as there are in Latin? In
other words, could this job be automated?

Bruce