01-11-2022, 12:19 AM
(31-10-2022, 02:50 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.However Stolfis grammar is not able to explain why <aiiin> is far more common than <oiin>. Stolfi wrote about this question: "It would be nice if the predicted word frequencies matched the frequencies observed in the Voynich manuscript. Unfortunately this is not quite the case, at least for the highly condensed grammar given here" (see Stolfi You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
For me, this is not a problem. If the MS text was the result of a truly arbitrary process, then we would expect to be able to predict such frequencies, but in case it is meaningful language, then not.
Compare English:
bat - bet - bit - bot - but
cat - cet - cit - cot - cut
Tehre is no pattern in the frequencies
(Dislcaimer: just the first example I could think of).

