Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[MarcoP]

That's quite remarkable: the encoded Macchiavelli is almost identical in behaviour with the Voynich text.

Indeed, at least in these per page statistics. This probably means that Voynichese vocabulary alone is enough to account for the high frequencies of small edit distance?

Since the mapping matched word frequencies in the two texts (Machiavelli and VMS) we basically imported the VMS network of similar words into Machiavelli, which already started with a very similar TTR. For instance, one of the properties mentioned by Torsten is that in Voynichese word types that occur frequently also have the highest number of similar word-types: this mapping makes so that the encoded Machiavelli shares this property.
In the original Italian, there are 2 words with edit distance 1 from "che" (the second most frequent word); in the encoded version, "che" is mapped to "ol" and there are 38 similar word types.