26-04-2020, 11:50 AM
Well, I didn't use Eva but glyphs.
I also didn't argue that the opposite of random is meaningful. However, the two are mutually exclusive. I would argue that the opposite of your proposal (meaningless) is meaningful, and I also stress again that we cannot conclude either way, and the evidence presented is not helping us to decide either way.
You presented a method to create Voynich look-alike text using a more or less random modification of previous words with small Levenshtein differences.
I have presented a method to do the same starting from a meaningful text.
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Now I may have gotten the various ways to modify words wrong, but that can be fixed. A Levenshtein distance of 1 would be created by substituting any symbol of chedy by another one.
Again, this presents in the order of 100 different possibilities, of which only a small fraction actually exist. So again, the changes are dominated by complicated rules that have been followed throughout the MS, no sign of arbitrariness.
I also didn't argue that the opposite of random is meaningful. However, the two are mutually exclusive. I would argue that the opposite of your proposal (meaningless) is meaningful, and I also stress again that we cannot conclude either way, and the evidence presented is not helping us to decide either way.
You presented a method to create Voynich look-alike text using a more or less random modification of previous words with small Levenshtein differences.
I have presented a method to do the same starting from a meaningful text.
These two are like the lemon and the banana in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
Now I may have gotten the various ways to modify words wrong, but that can be fixed. A Levenshtein distance of 1 would be created by substituting any symbol of chedy by another one.
Again, this presents in the order of 100 different possibilities, of which only a small fraction actually exist. So again, the changes are dominated by complicated rules that have been followed throughout the MS, no sign of arbitrariness.