11-02-2017, 09:56 PM
Quote:According to voynichese.com, the word or occurs 366 times and the word aiin occurs 470 times. Simply by chance we should expect multiple instances where the two words occur adjacently.
I see no particular reason why we should expect that "simply by chance". As an example, words "a" and "the" are both in top-10 of most frequent English words, but I doubt that they are often seen adjacent to each other.
About different frequences when we reverse the order. I guess it is much the same in natural languages. For example, "the" and "be" are two most common English words. And I reasonably expect that "be the" is much more frequent than "the be". And so on.
What Torsten writes about composites is far less trivial. But there is the question of spaces.
