Can VM be written in vowelless Latin?
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(23-07-2018, 05:12 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(23-07-2018, 04:22 PM)farmerjohn wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I just mean that if we map Voynichese to language, then frequent words of language should be frequent in Voynichese AND frequent in Voynichese should be also frequent in language.

By the way obviously any other property can be tested in both directions

I see, thank you. Your fake-Latin fails in both directions:

* As I showed above, the top 10 most frequent fake-Latin words (partellus & C) averagely are at position 6088 (there are more than 6087 Latin words that are more common) instead of the expected 50 or less. The most frequent ("illi") is only at position 128 in true Latin.

* None of the top 10, and only two of the top 100 Latin words appear in your fake top 20 words ("ex", #13 in the target list, and "iam" #44).

Where are all the frequent Latin words listed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.? Clearly, this isn't Latin, right?
But you should consider doing these checks yourself, I know it's hard work, but they will be much more instructive that way.

As for the list you need, I don't have time to work on it right now, I am sorry. I'll be happy to contribute in the future. 
I think you should start a new thread for this list of requirements: it will not be easy to define and it could be useful to other researchers as well. We could collect a set of guidelines that could make a candidate solution easier to present and to evaluate (this could include a few simple tests like the one proposed by Rene).

That's clearly not Classic Latin and not Medieval Latin. So to compare them we need transform lists.
For example if we compare most frequent words of English and Russian (my native language), we immediately remove articles like the and a and auxiliary verbs from one list and merge different forms of the word in another list.
For Classic vs "fake" we need similar amount of work.

But ok, imagine we have done this. Top 10 Classic is among top 30 Voynichese and vice versa.
Does that proof something? No
Does that disproof something? No
Does that help to correct errors? No

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RE: Can VM be written in vowelless Latin? - by farmerjohn - 23-07-2018, 07:06 PM

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