29-02-2016, 07:49 PM
The Voynich manuscript has only a small deal of repeating phrases. This is often (and rightly) held up as a mark against the text being a natural language. But the search for repeating phrases is based on finding exact, or fairly close matches. If we altered the terms of the search to be less strict would the outcome be any different?
What I am thinking is this: were we to consider only some characters (say [k, t, d, l, r, s]) to be important, would we find that those characters alone were patterned? For example, the phrase [chedy qokeedy lolsaiin qokain] would thus have the pattern [d k d l l s k], and would match the phrase [daiin kedy ol ols qokeeo]. Such character-limited patterns may be much more common and could bring some insight were they exist.
Now, the above is only an example, but would it be possible to find out a set of characters (or important 'bits' of textual information whatever they may be) which show the maximum amount of patterning in the text? And if so, what would it teach us?
What I am thinking is this: were we to consider only some characters (say [k, t, d, l, r, s]) to be important, would we find that those characters alone were patterned? For example, the phrase [chedy qokeedy lolsaiin qokain] would thus have the pattern [d k d l l s k], and would match the phrase [daiin kedy ol ols qokeeo]. Such character-limited patterns may be much more common and could bring some insight were they exist.
Now, the above is only an example, but would it be possible to find out a set of characters (or important 'bits' of textual information whatever they may be) which show the maximum amount of patterning in the text? And if so, what would it teach us?
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