10-03-2017, 04:24 PM
Well, if a text with 10,000 different words (=word types) is reduced to numbers in the range of 1-99,
then one could argue that 99% of the meaning is lost and only 1% is left over.
In that sense, both are methods to generate meaningless text.
To make it even more interesting....
How does one then go from a number (1-99) to a Voynichese word?
One could take a number of base patters which represent 10, 20, 30 etc.
Then, to add the units, one could have all sorts of rules:
- Add a plume to ch to make it Sh = +1
- Add an i = +1
- Add a e = +2
- Change k to t = +2
- Change f to p = +2
- Change r to l = +3
etc. etc.
Doing this, one could end up with something that looks like the output of an auto-copying process.
then one could argue that 99% of the meaning is lost and only 1% is left over.
In that sense, both are methods to generate meaningless text.
To make it even more interesting....
How does one then go from a number (1-99) to a Voynichese word?
One could take a number of base patters which represent 10, 20, 30 etc.
Then, to add the units, one could have all sorts of rules:
- Add a plume to ch to make it Sh = +1
- Add an i = +1
- Add a e = +2
- Change k to t = +2
- Change f to p = +2
- Change r to l = +3
etc. etc.
Doing this, one could end up with something that looks like the output of an auto-copying process.