[Movie] Voynich Talk E3: Why your Voynich theory is wrong (pt2)

[Koen G]

Id just like to stress that "13" is just what I reached in a quick experiment for YouTube, but that number is by no means set in stone. All I wanted to show is that if you follow a simple substitution logic, you cannot treat all glyphs as full letters. If you expect the kind of flexibility you need in an alphabet, you have to assume positional variation, which leads to the equivalent of a small set of letters. My main purpose was to find a very concrete way to get people thinking about the system rather than obscure languages.