19-07-2020, 06:23 PM
Marco said, "These numbers also point out to the fact that combining two Voynichese words is much more likely to result in a "legal" word than in English or Latin. This feature is mentioned in Timm and Schinner's paper and I think it might also be related with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but I am sure that more can be said and researched about the subject."
This is the uneasiness I had with interpreting these results from the beginning. I tried to think of some type of "control" to eliminate this general effect from muddying the results. Marco's "inside" tests are one way and I agree the results argue that split across lines is not happening.
But I also agree with bi3mw that the fact that across line matches resulted in a measurably lower amount of legal words than the inside "random" matches lends support for the idea that line end words (or word portions) are modified from "inner" words.
But wouldn't mere physical placement at line ends be enough? What scenario for decoding/understanding would necessitate modifying the ends of lines when it is physically evident what the ends of lines are from the script?
This is the uneasiness I had with interpreting these results from the beginning. I tried to think of some type of "control" to eliminate this general effect from muddying the results. Marco's "inside" tests are one way and I agree the results argue that split across lines is not happening.
But I also agree with bi3mw that the fact that across line matches resulted in a measurably lower amount of legal words than the inside "random" matches lends support for the idea that line end words (or word portions) are modified from "inner" words.
But wouldn't mere physical placement at line ends be enough? What scenario for decoding/understanding would necessitate modifying the ends of lines when it is physically evident what the ends of lines are from the script?