Word Entropy

[MichelleL11]

Thanks, Marco & Koen for sharing these results.  It is definitely interesting what manipulations get Latin to behave statistically more like Voynichese (and visa versa, for Koen’s entropy experiments).

The last thing l want to do is to come across as expecting work to be done, but l was wondering what impact your manipulation had on other basic measures of the text.  Does it still follow Zipf’s Law, for example, or does such wholesale substitution of the middle of words cause a loss of that quality?

Does this kick “q” up to a very high level in the character stats or is the impact something that would be otherwise hidden?

I know you are very interested in the reduplication stats and l would guess that this manipulation didn’t cause this - maybe do we need some sort of re-ordering of the words to get the repetition?

I hope you don’t mind these questions and thanks again for sharing these results!