27-05-2016, 12:44 PM
It seems to me that they key difference with print is intention. Printed books (then and now) were intended to sell and to reach as great an audience as possible. That is the inherent purpose of printing: to allow quick production and diffusion, so that the content will reach a broad audience. So it is normal that Latin would be so dominant: the intention is for it to spread fast to a maximum international readership.
The intentions behind the production of a handwritten enciphered text are very different. So unfortunately I don't think we can use this statistic to determine any probability about the Voynich plaintext language.
The intentions behind the production of a handwritten enciphered text are very different. So unfortunately I don't think we can use this statistic to determine any probability about the Voynich plaintext language.