[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Anton]

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?

I'm not saying that a random process was used to generate the VMS text, I'm saying that the fact that the text exhibits behavior according to Zipf's law, that says nothing about whether it is meaningful or meaningless. The fact that the labels do not obey Zipf's law does not add neither. Why whould they, to begin with?

By the way, is there any reference to the labels freq vs rank? And what labels were taken into account - only those which accompany images or all standalone vords and characters?