[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Anton]

I split the discussion about the Zipf law into a separate thread.

The interesting part is not that the main text follows Zipf law, but that the main text does while the labels do not.

This means that not the same process was followed for generating or writing the main text and for the labels.

I don't think that this tells us much about the process. A simple example provides one of the possible explanations of the behaviour.

1) I depict various objects
2) I label all those objects with arbitrary meaningless words ("descriptions"). Since all objects are different, descriptions will also be different.
Note 1. At this point, all labels will have the equal frequency count - of the value of 1.
3) I mention the depicted objects in the text (providing "explanations", for example). Each object is mentioned once.
Note 2. At this point, all labels will still have the equal frequency count - of the value of 2.

So there's no Zipf's curve, but there's no meaning at the same time.