VMs: Re: VGBT - Call for critical reviews

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>

> For the select few of you who have subscribed to the transcription pages 
> and
> viewed thousands of Voynich characters aligned with their corresponding
> glyphs, I'd like to start building a feedback loop to help me consider
> possibilities beyond my range and observation.  I'm very close to posting
> Quire 7, and with that quire I'll be almost half-way through the
> transcription (due to numerous missing pages in later quires).  Half-way is
> a good point to decide if you must swim the rest of the channel or 
> return!?!

I think this is good work and you should definitely go on to the end.
Your speed so far has been truly impressive. I am eager to see the
biological and recipes sections which I have always concentrated on
rather than the herbal.

Where I have checked your readings I have not come across any cases
where I think you are definitely wrong. There are some places
where an indistinct character might be read as ch or ee, s or r and
you sometimes choose the alternative which I would think less likely
for reasons concerning the internal structure of the words.

I am not convinced that all the distinctions you detect are more than
variants of the same character, but we are certainly better off
having a record of them.

Philip Neal



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