22-04-2017, 07:14 PM
(22-04-2017, 01:58 AM)DonaldFisk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I proposed an additional mechanism for deciding the beginning of paragraphs, and the same could apply for the ends of lines.
I'd be very wary of making observations based on small details. I'd also point out that words in the text are not just random, they are very random (variance = mean squared), so higher-than-chance occurrences of *some things* are very likely.
Re daiin, very similar patterns appear in my 21st Century Voynich Manuscript, and that is random (but with a variance lower than the real manuscript).
Words in the VMS are not related with the previous words. But this did not mean that words are random or as you say very random. That I give examples for some observations did not mean that my statements are based on some details:
90 % of the paragraphs start with a gallow glyph (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). There are also glyphs typical for line initial position (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
600 out of 1100 words ending with [m] are used as last word of a line (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for the observation that words in the VMS co-occur with similar ones.
See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for the statistically-significant effect of word-final glyphs on the initial symbol of a following word.
See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for some observations about the line as a functional unit.
The words in the VMS are not ordered as expected for a natural language but they are still ordered in some way.