Re: VMs: Was the author a synaesthete?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anthony,

> I wonder if our analysis of Voynichese fully takes into account the way
> the author's brain happened to be made up? Let us imagine that he (she?)
> had a highly idiosyncratic kind of cortical wiring, either native or
> occasioned by some kind of accident or incident, such that he perceived
> written words and language in a remarkably different way from most of
> us? Suppose, for example, that a written word or phrase which we may
> surmise to be a simple plant label (sorry!) was experienced directly and
> physically by the author as something like "that shade of bluey-green I
> particularly dislike, with a sort of sinister groan, the smell of old
> weasels, and that peculiarly uneasy inner sensation which usually
> immediately precedes major gastro-intestinal distress"?

I'm sure the smell of old weasels is perhaps a more universal referent than 
you give it credit for. :-o

We've certainly debated word salad manuscripts and lingua franca hypotheses 
in the past, but I guess your proposed combination of dyslexia and 
synaesthesia takes (tastes?) the biscuit. :-)

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


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