Re: VMs: evidence against line transposition

[Wayne Durden <wdurden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> If there is solid evidence of line transposition (which would be extremely
> unusual, to say the least), then any proposed cipher system would need to
> include an explanation for it.
> 

Hi all!  I hadn't come across this suggestion of line transposition before.
However, if the suggestion is that it is uniform and ubiquitous for every
other line, then some of the things that I am looking at would weigh against
it.  I am in the process of collecting and documenting large phrasal
similarities on various folios.  This started out because it appeared from
"eyeballing" the manuscript that there was some qualitative difference from
those pages generated by Rugg.  I figure that if there are large phrasal
similarities at various points in the manuscript which one might expect if
it was a real document, then one ought to at least be able to provably
refute to the satisfaction of most that the Rugg hyposthesis is incorrect,
at least for grids of small word components.  Eliminating this one
possibility would be a small but positive contribution.

One of the very first places where it appeared to me there was similarity
(and I invite you to look at the folios instead of relying on the EVA
transcripts) are the last two lines on folios 3v and 10v which you can see
here:

http://www.voynich.com/folios/f3v.jpg

and

http://www.voynich.com/folios/f10v.jpg

Does this look to ANYONE else like something similar might be being
communicated on these two lines of these two folios?  Yes, perhaps I am
seeing bunnies in clouds, but it doesn't seem so to me and I would welcome a
collection of opinions...

Anyway, in collecting these kinds of examples, as in this one, the
similarity occurs across line breaks differently.

In other words, if there are large phrasal similarities like these in the
document, we can knock out Rugg and line transposition both.....

Cheers, WLD!


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