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OK, I guess I need to read your work in detail (which I haven't time to do yet).
That's not true. I won't mention the work by Montemurro & Zanette, because, as I noted, you suggest that you were able to reproduce the like results with the random text (however, if one works onwards from the pre-analyzed statistical properties of the text it might be trivial that s/he finds co-occurrences to sustain across the text). But, apart from that, there is quite a number of tiny indications. My favourite one is that two most frequent "Voynich stars" (labeled objects of f68r1 and f68r2) - otol and odaiin are both mentioned in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and both in the same paragraph. I wonder what would be the probability for that in a random meaningless text. Another one is that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the supposed Dracaena - a plant that was largely known in Europe by that time only by hearsay, since Europeans did not yet frequent the Canaries or the Socotra back then, in other words - definitely a rare plant from the perspective of the VMS author, if a European he be) is the only (!) botanical folio not containing any occurrence of a label vord.
There are also clear distribution shifts of some vords to certain sections - such as balneo or recipe. (I can only wonder why this fruitful field is largely unexplored still). Not sure if this would be a characteristic of a meaningless text generated by picking cards.
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OK, I guess I need to read your work in detail (which I haven't time to do yet).
Quote:But in a century, no one has found any convincing evidence of meaningful information encoded in the text.
That's not true. I won't mention the work by Montemurro & Zanette, because, as I noted, you suggest that you were able to reproduce the like results with the random text (however, if one works onwards from the pre-analyzed statistical properties of the text it might be trivial that s/he finds co-occurrences to sustain across the text). But, apart from that, there is quite a number of tiny indications. My favourite one is that two most frequent "Voynich stars" (labeled objects of f68r1 and f68r2) - otol and odaiin are both mentioned in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and both in the same paragraph. I wonder what would be the probability for that in a random meaningless text. Another one is that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the supposed Dracaena - a plant that was largely known in Europe by that time only by hearsay, since Europeans did not yet frequent the Canaries or the Socotra back then, in other words - definitely a rare plant from the perspective of the VMS author, if a European he be) is the only (!) botanical folio not containing any occurrence of a label vord.
There are also clear distribution shifts of some vords to certain sections - such as balneo or recipe. (I can only wonder why this fruitful field is largely unexplored still). Not sure if this would be a characteristic of a meaningless text generated by picking cards.