29-01-2019, 05:57 AM
(29-01-2019, 01:44 AM)Gavin Güldenpfennig wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote: I think the most important thing to observe is the order in which the Voynich glyphs occur within tokens.
Some are mostly at the beginning. Some are mostly in the middle. Some are mostly at the end.
This is significantly different from natural languages. Even though every language has certain letters that occur more often at the beginnings and ends of words (for example, vowels are more common at the ends of words in some languages), the letters, in general, "move around" much more than in Voynichese.
Quote: I think we can forget about agglutinative languages. Voynichese has a very regular distribution, we don't see vords running together.
@davidjackson & @JKP:
It is understandable, that you have doubts about a natural VMS language or about an agglutinative one, but I don´t think, that both aspects you mentioned are not worth it, to discuss about.
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I did not not say I have doubts about a natural VMS language. I said that Voynich glyph position within tokens does not match natural language patterns. These two issues must be kept separate.
The rigid and unusual glyph position makes natural language less likely and it makes a substitution code EXTREMELY unlikely, but it does not completely rule out natural language possibly being encoded in a different way from what most people expect. It may mean the structure has to be interpreted DIFFERENTLY from a simple substitution code.
And it might mean it's not directly natural language... it might be symbols, numbers, positions, or steganography, but I have not made a decision one way or the other as to whether it might be natural language, only that it is certainly NOT a simple substitution code for natural language.

