21-04-2022, 04:35 PM
My goal was not to understand the text, it was to see how statistics would behave if I performed certain manipulations.
I am still on vacation, so I'm just typing some quick explanation on my phone (currently on the train from Verona to Venice).
What I hoped to understand better is: where does the information in a Voynichese word sit? Or rather, where does it not sit? Omit all cases of EVA "n" from the transcription of a page, and your transcription remains essentially the same. EVA-n does not add any information at all, because it is 100% predictable (bar some rare exceptions, as usual).
I never wanted to offer an optimal solution through this exercise. Rather, I wanted to learn more about Voynichese's actual information density, which isn't so bad as that of pure EVA.
At the level of vocabulary, things are a bit more hopeful, in my opinion. As you read through the text, new vocabulary is introduced at an expected, linguistically plausible rate. Reduplication patterns are an issue, but these might be caused by convergent encoding at character level.
I am still on vacation, so I'm just typing some quick explanation on my phone (currently on the train from Verona to Venice).
What I hoped to understand better is: where does the information in a Voynichese word sit? Or rather, where does it not sit? Omit all cases of EVA "n" from the transcription of a page, and your transcription remains essentially the same. EVA-n does not add any information at all, because it is 100% predictable (bar some rare exceptions, as usual).
I never wanted to offer an optimal solution through this exercise. Rather, I wanted to learn more about Voynichese's actual information density, which isn't so bad as that of pure EVA.
At the level of vocabulary, things are a bit more hopeful, in my opinion. As you read through the text, new vocabulary is introduced at an expected, linguistically plausible rate. Reduplication patterns are an issue, but these might be caused by convergent encoding at character level.


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