Experimental replica of VMS properties with a given corpus

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It is also conceivable that the words are not separated as you would expect, but like this:

thiss ente ncei sjust anexa mpl efori rregu larc utting

Before that, of course, another step must be taken. Or the text actually consists of extreme abbreviations that are sufficient as "encryption".

This kind of arbitrary spacing is one of the many tweakings in Geoffrey's theory. 
But You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are many more than the additional ones you get by ignoring spaces (47% vs 8%). And what about reduplication? Are repeating words "nulls" as Mark thinks? 
Hammering Voynichese into Latin (or Greek) soon leads to rejecting larger and larger parts of the evidence.

I prefer to keep an open mind on the possible language, trying to consider all evidence as meaningful.

PS: Whoops, we are off topic again 

A brief off-topic criticism of my theory deserves a brief off-topic response:

Writing some suffixes and syllables as separate words, combined with the ambiguity of letter values of characters, actually offers a quite natural explanation of much of the reduplication of words in the text:

If many syllables are written separately, and if sequences such as /ten/, /dyn/, and /thain/ can be written identically as homographs, then it is much more likely that these syllables will occur consecutively in a text, creating the appearance of reduplication of Voynichese words.

Voila, another unusual feature of the text explained.

Yes, the ambiguity creates challenges for the reader to comprehend the text, but we are discussing that issue with a series of exercises in the other thread.

Geoffrey