Quote:It's also not completely clear to me how the only conclusion can be that the text is artificially generated. I understand why straightforward interpretation as a normal text in natural language is problematic, but I'm not certain why it should point towards artifical construction.
Hello Koen,
in my eyes there are multiple observations pointing in this direction.
1) The words in the VMS build a network of words similar to each other. If you want to generate a network with at least 6837 similar words I wouldn't describe that as an easy task. Especially if you live in medieval times.
2) Even if all pages are slightly different they all have in common that they contain similar words. For instance page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains many words with "on" instead of "an" and "oiin" instead of "aiin" even if such words are normally rare. In this way each page of the VMS contains a smaller sample of the graph you will get for the full manuscript.
3) As more frequent a word is as more similar words exists for it. This is true for each page and for the VMS as a whole.
4) Within a page similar words occur above each other and side by side (see for instance the words "oky", "oty", "qoky" and "qoty" on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
5) There is a shift from Currier A to Currier B within the manuscript (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
6) The text is influenced by its container, the page of the manuscript. There are features typical for a certain position in a line or within a page (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. p. 18ff and 26f).
7) Words not similar to other words like "okeokeokeody" and "okeeolkcheey" occur only once. Moreover even for them it is usually possible to split them into two or three more common words like "okeo keo keody" and "okeeol kcheey" (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
8) Since the similar words in the VMS build a network the lack of corrections for the VMS is even more surprising.
It is necessary to explain all this features. My explanation for this features is that the connection between similar words exists because the text is a copy of itself. According to my auto copying hypothesis, the whole manuscript consists of permutations of the most commonly used words. By copying and modifying words already written it is possibly to generate a text with features similar to that of the Voynich Manuscript. To change glyph sequences which have already been written requires no additional tools. For someone in the early 15th century it would be possible to use such a method to generate the text of the Voynich Manuscript while writing. His motivation to use this method was that it is far more efficient to copy text then to thing of something new all the time.
Quote:In this 1st paragraph of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. it follows history to the letter and I did find logic within the prefix's of the first two letters of voynich vords. Please at-least look at it Torsten an all.
Dear Stellar,
sorry, but you interpret the same words differently all the time. This way you can read everything you like into the VMS.