RE: VMs: Re: Currier A and B

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

> Picking a page at random, say 34v -
> Here's how the lines break down - this is accurate but slightly generalized,
> since the difference between a1 and b2 on these pages is keyed not directly
> to lines themselves, but to another factor, heh heh.
>
> Line 1 b2   Line 4 b2   Line 7 a1   Line 10 a1
> Line 2 a1   Line 5 b2   Line 8 b2   Line 11 b2
> Line 3 a1   Line 6 a1   Line 9 a1

Just a quick observation: f34v is one of the pages I've noted as having 
free-standing <l>'s. FWIW, I now parse <qo> before <ol>, and so view <qol> 
as <qo> + free-standing <l>.

On f34v, these lines contain free-standing <l>'s:
        4       in <qol>
        5       first character on line
        6       <lr>, a very curious-looking (non-)pair of characters
        9       first character on line

FYI, I'm currently trying to understand the dialects independent of the 
apparent word structure (because I don't trust it to be meaningful): of 
course, <-edy> vs <-ody> is one such thing, where <od> seems to be the 
heart of the difference. However, if you parse out the main set of pairs 
beginning with <o->, you also end up with a lot of <cho>'s and <sho>'s in 
the second group, which all seem much like part of the same thing.

The key question is: is this additional <-o> left-associative (ie, linked 
with the preceding <ch[e][e]> or <sh[e][e]>), right-associative (ie, linked 
with the following <-d>), or something else entirely that typically gets 
placed between the two?

In this general vein, can anyone propose a set of rules to classify 
spaceless Voynichese into the various dialects? That is, without looking at 
word-lengths, vocabulary, or perhaps even at the statistical distribution 
of the characters/glyphs.

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


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