04-02-2017, 08:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2017, 08:42 PM by Emma May Smith.)
Hi Torsten, just looked at your 2016 paper. What interests me are the tables showing the likelihood that same or similar words occur nearby. You have sampled four different language for the tables you give in the paper: Arabic, Latin, English, and German. You also assert that the patterns seen in the Voynich text are not language like
However, it seems to me that the four languages aren't alike enough to give a clear indication of what a natural language should look like in these tables. Although Latin and English are similar, Arabic and German have quite different patterns.
So, you've sample four languages and found three distinct patterns, which is very shaky ground for insisting that the Voynich patterns are not language like. Indeed, German is so flat in these likelihood tables that it seems the most unlanguage like of the lot!
However, it seems to me that the four languages aren't alike enough to give a clear indication of what a natural language should look like in these tables. Although Latin and English are similar, Arabic and German have quite different patterns.
So, you've sample four languages and found three distinct patterns, which is very shaky ground for insisting that the Voynich patterns are not language like. Indeed, German is so flat in these likelihood tables that it seems the most unlanguage like of the lot!