VMs: RE: Word pair key

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

There will always be holdouts in any theory, but I don't think I'm too bold
in suggesting that a great many Voynichologists do not consider EVA to be an
accurate 'character by character' representation of the VMS text, as you
appear to be using it here.
You may encounter the same problem so many other researchers have
encountered, and here you demonstrate the implications of this roadblock in
the very first line by introducing 'characters' in pairs that are not
necessarily considered to be individual characters in any cipher oriented
sense.  The monumental problem of accurate transcription - go figure that
this would be an issue to me! :-)

Go here:
http://www.und.edu/org/crypto/crypto/general.crypt.info/voynich/voynich.now

This is an early compilation of transcription efforts, before 'modern'
interlinears "transliterated" all the old efforts into Frogguy and EVA.
This also represents the efforts of some of the finest VMS researchers that
ever existed, and as such we should never lose sight of their basic
perceptions, the perceptions on which they formulated some of their most
influential hypotheses.  (nobody heard Currier speak of dain daiin because
these verbose constructs did not exist in his mind.  To him it was an and
am, quite simply.)

There are even older files, but this one will do to give you an idea how
these glyphs were viewed by most early researchers.  Please try your system
on the transcription efforts of the masters, and see if this helps in your
understanding.

GC

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> Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 8:17 PM
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> Subject: VMs: Word pair key
>
>
> This is the first line of the first page of the VMS expanded into pair
> chains.
>
> fa ac ch hy ys    sy yk ka al    la ar    ra at ta ai ii in    ns sh ho ol
> ls sh ho or ry    yc ct th h! !r re es    sy    yk ko or    rs sh ho ol ld
> dy y!
>
> Notice how the pairs at the beginning and ending of the first four words
> (excluding the end of the fourth word and obviously the beginning of the
> first word) all mirror each other.  As if it is a key to mark where the
> column and row glyphs should be positioned to decypher the text. A neat
> method to use and no one would ever guess unless they looked at
> it this way.
> These words might be the key to the whole thing. Does this occur anywhere
> else in the VMS?
>
> This means that the first word ends in the same letter that the next word
> starts with and so on.
>
> Jeff
>
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