Human generated nonsense text

[Mark Knowles]

Actually computers have trouble with random as welll, they mostly use psuedorandom generators, though they may have improved these days.

Yes, but only another computer would ever notice
However, given that the Voynich corpus is not "random" in nature I'm not sure where this thread is going.

I think my point is that truly "random" is probably a theoretical idea. As has been pointed out in practice we use pseudo-random numbers. The Voynich text is not "random", but all of it or some of it may be the product of an attempt to produce "random" text. My point is that it is very difficult for a human to produce "random" text without access to tools and so a human being endeavoring to produce random text at a reasonable rate will inevitably produce text with a lot of structure.

As an exercise one might want to try to produce 2 pages of random words without the use of tools and at a reasonable rate and then see what one produces.

I think one's inclination would be to create structures within which there is some "randomish" element.