[Article] Demystifying the Voynich manuscript using computational linguistic techniques

[Koen G]

Finding differences between Currier A and Currier B is not notable. It's like finding a difference between a white rose and a red rose. We have known that A and B are in a different "language" and a different hand since the early days.

The real question is: what about the B-scribes? We must assume that Lisa's assessment that the hands are different is correct. So if we cannot find a statistical difference between two scribes in the same Currier language, what does this mean?

- Is it the same person, who changed his handwriting but not his method? This would mean that the method of converting or generating the text is very well-defined, because this one person hung onto it despite a handwriting change. 

- Is it a different person? This would imply that the method is well-defined and shared. 

All in all, if there is no difference between two hands in the same dialect, this would be encouraging because it would mean that they took the language seriously, that there is some system.