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RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - nickpelling - 06-08-2019
(02-08-2019, 08:36 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How can different source words be mapped into homographs and still produce a high TTR?
It's a good question.
Certainly, I don't see any way that medieval Tironian-style abbreviations could be present in Voynichese: but by 1450, these had all but disappeared from normal scribal use.
More generally, I struggle to see how Latin (where so much of the semantic content is held in the word ending) could be compatible with Voynichese, which has such a stylized paucity of endings.
The TTR results are challenging for anyone seeking to explain Voynichese in terms of a single defining mechanism. I believe that abbreviation will turn out to be part of the overall picture (because the changing word length is hard to account for otherwise), but only part of the picture.
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - Koen G - 29-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - Anton - 29-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - Koen G - 29-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - -JKP- - 30-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - Anton - 30-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - ReneZ - 30-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - nickpelling - 30-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - Anton - 30-08-2019
RE: What are the characteristics of Labelese? - ReneZ - 30-08-2019