Re: VMs: Split -ol- pairs...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 07:20 25/05/2004 -0700, Rene wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that this
> was an (as yet unproven) prediction.

I'll see what I can do... :-)

> I am very skeptical about any theory that assumes
> spaces could be arbitrary, or inserted deliberately
> in the wrong places.
> I have not yet heard a good argument why this should
> be so.

If it is a ciphertext using a verbose cipher, then splitting pairs might 
usefully serve to make that verbose cipher less visually obvious.

If it is a plaintext based on Japanese or Thai (any others?), then 
splitting pairs might usefully serve to beautify the text.

Otherwise... random scribal error?

> I have seen several arguments why spaces
> seem honest separators of words (or other units)

I agree that this probably explains ~nearly all~ Voynichese spaces: but I 
remain unsettled by these spaces apparently inserted inside <ol> and <or> 
pairs. We'll need some evidence to quantify this more exactly.

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


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list