The Voynich Ninja

All these experiments are based on some assumptions about the Voynich alphabet.
This doesn't immediately make these experiments invalid, they can be used to test the assumptions.

While Jaskiewicz compares 'anonymous' single character frequencies, Darrin compares trigrams. The method of Jaskiewicz could be used in several different ways to also avoid assumptions about the Voynich alphabet character assignments, but it is a bit more complicated.

What neither analysis allows is the possibility of a verbose mapping, e.g. if two Voynich characters map to a single plain text character (or others). There is also no easy way of doing that of course. Such experiments inevitably involve making many many different choices and/or trying a great (!) number of different options.

(03-09-2020, 06:56 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.All these experiments are based on some assumptions about the Voynich alphabet.
This doesn't immediately make these experiments invalid, they can be used to test the assumptions.

Thanks for this further aspect of evaluating these kinds of publications.

I do, however, get the impression that the assumption that the single glyphs in VM have meaning on their own is very unlikely -- to the point of being disproven.  I see lack of matches as a bit circular basis for this disproof.  This may not be the right question to ask, but how has this question been framed in a positive manner that has been done experimentally (that is, are there characteristics you would expect to see and do see if it were bigrams or trigrams or some other "unit")?

I am going to keep looking for this information -- but I welcome any comments on this topic that people would like to share.

(03-09-2020, 05:56 PM)MichelleL11 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the assumption that the single glyphs in VM have meaning on their own is very unlikely

There are single-glyph labels, for what it's worth. Not simply single-standing glyphs as in circular diagrams, but literally singe-glyph labels labeling objects - at least one is there.

Interesting - thanks for that.