07-10-2020, 05:42 PM
When you say "Zipf distribution list", I think you're actually talking about word frequency. IE, Forbidden appears once in the English text, Tybnaill once in the obfuscated text. They both have a word frequency of one. But that doesn't mean tybnail means forbidden.
It's all good, but it doesn't mean anything.
First of all, your proposal means the Voynich would have to be a direct translation of a source text. Each word would have to appear the same number of times in each corpus. If this was so, regular patterns would be discernable and would have been picked up by now. Voynichese has word ordering that simply doesn't appear in Roman or Germanic languages (ie, LAAFU etc).
Secondly, Zipf doesn't really have anything to do with it. Zipf is a power law for distribution probability. You're just graphing the word frequency. If your graph approximates a Zipfian distribution, then you can say your text follows a Zipf distribution. But it makes no sense to change your word frequencies to make your text correspond to an arbitrary Zipfian distribution line.
And there is no such thing as a "Zipf process" to encipher text.
You're basically proposing a straight on translation from one source text to Voynichese, which is unlikely. It's an interesting idea, but I'm afraid I don't think it matches what we are seeing here.
It's all good, but it doesn't mean anything.
First of all, your proposal means the Voynich would have to be a direct translation of a source text. Each word would have to appear the same number of times in each corpus. If this was so, regular patterns would be discernable and would have been picked up by now. Voynichese has word ordering that simply doesn't appear in Roman or Germanic languages (ie, LAAFU etc).
Secondly, Zipf doesn't really have anything to do with it. Zipf is a power law for distribution probability. You're just graphing the word frequency. If your graph approximates a Zipfian distribution, then you can say your text follows a Zipf distribution. But it makes no sense to change your word frequencies to make your text correspond to an arbitrary Zipfian distribution line.
And there is no such thing as a "Zipf process" to encipher text.
You're basically proposing a straight on translation from one source text to Voynichese, which is unlikely. It's an interesting idea, but I'm afraid I don't think it matches what we are seeing here.
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