An Essay on Entropy: what is it, and why is it so important?

[MichelleL11]

Finally, this subject was discussed by Lindemann and Bowern, who compared actual abbreviated historical texts in a few languages with normalized, unabbreviated versions (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):

The usage of abbreviations and special characters has the effect of raising the conditional character entropy of the English, Icelandic, and Latin texts and taking them further from the values we find for Voynichese.

Thanks for confirming my understanding of the prior work by Lindemann and Bowern on abbreviations -- I re-read it last night, thinking I had remembered it having some useful data on this topic, but just didn't have a chance to post it in this string.  I do appreciate the extra explanation -- examples are always helpful.