RE: VMs: Line and paragraph as structural unit (Noise or data ?)

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

NIck wrote:

> At 05:05 25/05/2003 +1000, Jacques Guy wrote (in reply
> to Philip Neal):
> > > Can a single
> > >Voynichese word represent a sequence of two
> morphemes? Can a sequence
> > >of two Voynichese words represent a single morpheme?
> >
> >I hold that the spaces between words are artefacts of the
> >shapes of the letters.
>
> I fully agree that this is the most likely reason for
> the apparent "word"
> structuring rules we see. Though of course, to my eyes
> this seems more
> symptomatic of conscious misdirection than of language
> artificiality...
> YMMV. :-)

This subject gets a bit confusing because of those pesky
'half-spaces', but I still think the simplest explanation is the
best, being that each 'full space' delineates a written word, and
each paragraph a section of continuous thought.  As an example of
the 'half space' problem, I once got a readout on a passage that
began "Sixteen Nouembre", but there was a 'half space' involved,
which made it appear to read "Sixteen Nou embre".  I have also
discovered cases where two short words are run together, "of the"
as "ofthe", "I am" as "Iam", which would of course back up Nick's
idea of 'conscious misdirection'.  I think the 'half spaces' are
artifacts of the encoding process, pauses by the author between
encoding groups, while the 'full spaces' are intended to delineate
between words.  Just my humble opinion, of course, as there is
some evidence for misdirection.

There is also the observation that the cipher groups appear to be
written in sets of 2 or three for the most part, something that
Nick has focused on and something that goes to the heart of the
encoding process, IMHO.  The author went to great lengths to make
his script appear fluid, and this effort must be a functioning
part of the system in question.

GC

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