[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Sam G]

That the main text obeys Zipf's law and the labels do not is not going to be easy to explain if you think it's something other than a meaningful text.  Maybe someone in the early 15th century had already discovered Zipf's law and consciously created a nonsense text to emulate these properties?

Actually, the Zipf's law does not prove meaningful text at all. Please have a look at this paper: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Please read my statement again.  If a random process that generates texts obeying Zipf's law was used to generate the VMS text, then why don't the labels also obey Zipf's law?

You could say that a different process was used for the labels.  But why would someone do that?  Was someone in the 15th century aware of Zipf's law and where it should and should not apply in meaningful texts?