19-02-2020, 05:40 PM
What kind of word statistics?
If the word statistics record the length of the words, then it matters.
If the word statistics record patterns of glyphs that occur in the transition from one word to the next, then it matters.
If the word statistics record the balance of so-called vowels to consonants, then it matters.
If all you are doing is counting spaces, then it doesn't matter EXCEPT that spaces might be a character (or a null) in Voynichese, in which case it does matter (because a word break might be character-based in Voynichese).
If the word statistics record the length of the words, then it matters.
If the word statistics record patterns of glyphs that occur in the transition from one word to the next, then it matters.
If the word statistics record the balance of so-called vowels to consonants, then it matters.
If all you are doing is counting spaces, then it doesn't matter EXCEPT that spaces might be a character (or a null) in Voynichese, in which case it does matter (because a word break might be character-based in Voynichese).