Statement: IF Voynichese does not represent natural language...

[geoffreycaveney]

additionally, in oct 2016, I've made an You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.on the most frequent letters per word and what letter makes a word unique.

It appears that in every word you can found at least one of these letters from the group [o c a y ].  If you remove these words,
then there are only 170 words remaining, such as [dl].

Davidsch, thank you for this analysis. It is very interesting.

I should make it clear to everyone that unlike many other people on this forum and involved in Voynich research, I am not a computer programmer or a coder at all. My angle to approach the MS text is mainly philological, with a focus on the linguistics, grammar, morphology, phonology, etc., of the possible underlying target languages of the MS text. But my focus is not on "computational" linguistics per se, although I am aware and I recognize that this is an active field of linguistic research as well.

As such, many things that may seem obvious or simple to many of you when reading Davidsch's blog post, may not seem obvious or simple to me. So I am going to ask some questions about it, even though the answers may already be obvious or simple to many of the rest of you.

Am I correct in understanding that your analysis indicates that [o] is the first letter that occurs from among the group [o c a y ] in 16070 words? And so on with the other letters. But there are many other words in which [o] occurs, just not before all of [c a y ]? Thank you very much for clarifying this point if you can.

I am curious about what happens to the statistics when you remove [y] from the combination group of high ranked letters. Those who are following my own pet theory will easily guess why I am asking about removing [y] in particular, but let me focus on the abstract analytical aspect of the question here. I imagine based on your analysis that in this case the best remaining 4 letter combination will be [o c a e ]. Now if you had to add a 5th letter, but you were not allowed to add [y], which would be the 5th letter? Would it be [d]? This is my guess, but I do not want to jump to conclusions.

Thank you for your patience with my questions, and for taking the time to consider them.

Geoffrey