What are the characteristics of Labelese?

[ReneZ]

Torsten,

this thread is about finding properties of the labels. The statistic I computed is one example of a very clear property, where the label text very distinctly differs from the main text. The purpose of my post was not at all to address your paper.

For any kind of explanation of the Voynich MS text, this is one of a list of properties that need to be explained or at least taken into account.
For any explanation that involves arbitrary text generation, like Gordon Rugg's or yours, it requires that 'something different' must have been done. Your earlier answer to a similar argument (where I didn't actually compute any probability figure) did not argue that this was not the case.

There are more such points, and these were already brought up when Gordon first presented his method, but these do not concern the labels.

So, not to leave any ambiguity, the post shows that the running text and the label text (specifically the zodiac labels) have quite different properties. The running text includes high-frequency words that never appear among the labels, but many if not most labels are 'valid' words that appear somewhere in the running text. This fits with the idea that the running text has sentences, while the labels only nouns, adjectives or numbers (for example). Of course it is not proof of it.

It might be even more interesting to make a similar analysis specifically for the pharmaceutical pages, because here the labels and the running text are mixed on the same pages, and the Currier language is essentially A, even though it has its own 'flavour'. However, I am not as familiar with these labels.