An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text
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(23-04-2017, 05:39 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I recommend you look at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You can see that on some pages much more than half of all words ending [m] occur at the end of lines. Indeed, throughout the text about 75% of all such words occur in that position. Notably, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has ten words ending [m], all of which are line end; You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has eight; and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has six.

Also, though I do believe the text is a natural language written plainly (more or less), I do not believe any claim to have discovered meaning or identified the underlying language. Nobody has convinced me that they've done better than guesswork.

I analysed the text without considering line breaks, so there's a chance I missed something important.    I'll examine the occurrence of word-final [m] when I have time.

If it's in an unencrypted natural language, it would have been identified and translated by now.

I think that the simplest theory that best fits the facts is that the text is generated by a stochastic process similar to the one I outlined in my blog.   If someone can come up with an alternative theory that fits the facts better, or is simpler, I'll be happy to concede.
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RE: An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text - by DonaldFisk - 23-04-2017, 07:49 PM

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