27-09-2020, 08:51 AM
I have some questions about this...
One, how unusual is it for the Zipf frequency list to match? Does this really match to an extent that can be considered an explanation stronger than chance?
Two, if I understand correctly you suggest a separate word list, whereby each Latin word type corresponds to one Voynich word type? This would be problematic, since we cannot find the required syntactic patterns in Voynichese. It does not explain LAAFU behaviour etc etc. Moreover, if there is no relation between the Latin word and the Voynichese word apart from the fact that they are in the list together, I wonder how effective it would be as a memory test. It's really just another thing to memorise, or spend a lot of time looking up words in the list.
One, how unusual is it for the Zipf frequency list to match? Does this really match to an extent that can be considered an explanation stronger than chance?
Two, if I understand correctly you suggest a separate word list, whereby each Latin word type corresponds to one Voynich word type? This would be problematic, since we cannot find the required syntactic patterns in Voynichese. It does not explain LAAFU behaviour etc etc. Moreover, if there is no relation between the Latin word and the Voynichese word apart from the fact that they are in the list together, I wonder how effective it would be as a memory test. It's really just another thing to memorise, or spend a lot of time looking up words in the list.