08-07-2026, 04:43 PM
(08-07-2026, 02:46 PM)Vuk88 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Mauro wrote:Actually, prefixes, infixes and suffixes, everything is possible. But one also needs roots! and this is the problem with Voynichese: after removing prefixes and suffixes most of the times nothing remains.
...That's only true if we keep looking at it through the lens of someone desperately searching for a spoken European language. But what if we try to look at it as a compressed data structure or a cipher? In such a system, a "root" doesn't necessarily need to be 3 or 4 letters long to trigger a word with complete meaning. Sometimes a single character in the middle (like a gallows) is enough to act as a pointer or a category index. Why do we have to fixate solely on classical phonetic linguistics? I really don't get this "therapeutic stubbornness", as if someone were forcing us to.
Why do you say that? I even made the example of a philosophical language, which surely would not be a spoken European language and doesn't even need to have a phonetics. It does not matter which language you use or create ex-novo: you need roots to have something on which prefixes and suffixes can work.