Fw: Character n anomaly

["John Grove" <4groves@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Once again it seems to me that 'n' doesn't really exist by itself in that
it
> is part of the whole where 'n' is simply the two stroke character, 'an' is
> an 'e' + 'in', and the '@' is an 'e' with 'n'. Each of these form a
separate
> character. So aiin would indeed be a single 'e'+'4in' character as would
> iiin be a '4in' character that might follow an 'o'.
>
> Numerous weirdo characters can be accounted for through the
end-stroke'  -
> especially things like the @ or the o with a floating 's' stroke above it.
>
> As for P and F being separators - these characters appear in labels as
> well - and we have the anomalies of the split-gallows to deal with as
well.
>
> John.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <voynich@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 6:28 AM
> Subject: Character n anomaly
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> > I just had a look at the key-like sequences
> > 49v, 57v, 66r, 76r
> > Putting all these together I noted that looking for isolated
> > characters in the sequences, h, a, n, p, g, b, j, u do not appear in
> > any key-like sequences on their own.
> >
> > I found this not so strange for g, b, j and u since they could be
> > forms of other characters, but I thought it was curious for h, a, n
> > and p not to be there (in fact there is a weirdo tall character that
> > *could* represent p)
> > So I concentrated for a moment on the frequency duplets in the ms
> > containing n.
> >
> > "_" means space
> >
> > n_ 6121
> > an 119
> > en 7
> > in 6058
> > on 9
> > sn 1
> > *n 2
> > _n 4
> > na 15
> > nc 1
> > nd 10
> > ne 1
> > ng 2
> > ni 1
> > nl 3
> > no 21
> > ny 25
> >
> > so obviously "n" is located more often word-terminal,  mostly
> > associated with "i" and with "a".
> > Out of 994 word *types* containing "n" (at any location), 900 types
> > contain "ain", "aiin" or "aiiin". I think this is really strange. "n" is
> (as
> > noted before) almost exclusively word terminal but in a special
> > context.
> >
> > Out of 3384 word types containing "a" (at any location), 1289
> > contain "ai"
> > So I can't stop thinking that there is something really weird. Note
> > that this frequencies are about words (so the great frequency of
> > "dain", "daiin" words does not count).
> > I remember that Denis Mardle once pointed out that in the
> > sequence at inner circle of f57v, "aiin" seems to be in the middle of
> > the sequence as if it was another character. Similarly "sh" appears
> > in f66r standing on its own...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gabriel
> >
> >
> >
>