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I do agree that the repeated glyphs and almost-repeated "words" are a big red flag against "can this actually mean anything?", and I'm not sure the idea of abbr
by coroxout 9y ago
I do agree that the repeated glyphs and almost-repeated "words" are a big red flag against "can this actually mean anything?", and I'm not sure the idea of abbreviations really explains that.
However, many medieval documents even in known real languages do contain almost undifferentiated glyphs one after the other:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)
Not quite the same, but something similar might conceivably apply to e.g. the Voynich's c-like characters.
- joe_the_user 9y agoWell, I believe what article was saying was the text was shorthand for a sequence of actions - repeated letters implied repeated actions. In this case, sequences herbal infusions, bathing, magnets, etc. IE, there's no text to translate, it's not an abbreviation for any standard text.