[Article] Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script

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Interesting discussion. So then what I would wonder next is, is there an anagramming procedure which can account for Voynichese statistics on the one hand and be reversible on the other? Because to get from Hebrew to Voynichese through anagramming alone, you'd probably need some degree of sorting, which means some degree of information loss, right?

They compared the text with modern languages including modern Hebrew.   If there are significant differences, the match will be spurious.   You have to match against languages known at the time the text was written.   As they didn't do this, I don't think that the paper has anything useful to say about the Voynich Manuscript.

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On the more general issue of anagramming, there's no information loss if you reorder letters systematically, e.g. with "thing" becoming iht gn" and "night" becoming "gin th", but if you reorder letters alphabetically, "thing"  and "night" both become "hignt" and you have lost information.   Even then, there's still probably enough redundancy in the text to extract most of the original meaning computationally (but it would be slow and laborious to do this by hand) e.g. if your last word decodes as "right" and it's followed by "hignt", that should probably decode as "thing" rather than "night".