Character entropy of Voynichese

[ReneZ]

Hello Anton,

I computed the single character entropy of all word-initial characters by simply counting the word-initial characters, and computing their frequency distribution. Similarly for word-final characters. As an example, Italian words typically end with a vowel, a quite reduced set, so a reduced character entropy for word-final characters.

Torsten, I don't know, of course, from everybody whether they understand the implications of some statistics or not.
In addition, having the statistics is one thing, but drawing the right conclusions from them quite another.

What I do know, however, and this is from communicating with a large number of people, that many people do not understand. All the people who are still playing with simple substitution do not understand.
Now it is not a crime not to understand, but it is not right to say that the statistics are wrong, or that they don't count for 'Voynichese'.

Specifically for your approach, there is no conflict at all with the entropy values that are observed for the MS text (i.e. string of symbols).