[Article] A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

[Torsten]

There is nothing too concrete on how new words are introduced. Just *that* this happens.

A new word is generated like any other word. It is generated by copying and varying words already written.

For instance <chedy> is introduced on page f32r. The word before <chedy> is <tchey>. To introduce <chedy> it was only necessary to repeat <chey> and to ad a <d> before <y>. 
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chedy occurs many times on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and the tokens directly before it are dissimilar except for two that are somewhat similar. If it occurs enough times, it will eventually follow a similar token.

@JKP Your response suggests that you didn't know any of my papers. I have two open access papers published at arxiv.org (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Please read them.

1) The order of the pages we see today is not the original order (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 23ff).

2) f26r, f26v, and f31r belong to the same bifolio. This bifolio belongs to Currier B whereas page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. belongs to Currier A. Currier A was written before Currier B (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 25). Therefore You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was written before f26r, f26v, and f31r.

3) There are only two instances of <chedy> in Currier A. The second instance is on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. f89r1 belongs to the pharmaceutical section. Herbal in Currier A was written before the pharmaceutical section. Therefore we can be sure that <chedy> was introduced on page f32r.

4)  "... similar glyph groups can be found above each other twice as often as they can be found side by side ..."  (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 14). I is not important that the two words follow each other. For instance it would be also necessary to find the source word for <tchey>. This word was probably <qotchy> or <qokchy>in line f32r.P.5 (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Please note that also <qotchy> and <qokchy> are similar to each other.

5)  I argue that the writer generated new words by copying and modifying already written glyph sequences (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p. 14ff). I't is only important for my argumentation that <tchey>was written before <chedy>.