01-11-2022, 08:09 PM
(01-11-2022, 12:13 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What is a matter of taste is, which property of the text one finds most intersting, or which property one would like to highlight. The network of words highlights the fact that one can connect words that differ by only one edit distance. Stolfi's word grammar highlights that such a grammar exists in the first place. The slot tables do something similar, but are more visual (easy to understand) and less complete.
The network does not show the word structure, and the grammar and slot tables do not show the connectivity of similar words.
There is only one Voynich text. Therefore every model for the text has to handle features like the connectivity of similar words. See for instance the word <qokeedy>.
For <qokeedy> there are similar words with ED=1 like: qokeey, qokedy, okeedy, qoteedy, qoeedy, qokeed, qokeeody, qolkeedy, qokeeedy, qodeedy, qokededy, qopeedy
There are words with ED=2: okeey, okedy, oteedy, qotedy, keedy, qoteey, qoked, qokdy, ...
With ED=3: otedy, qoky, oteey, okey, ...
With ED=4: oky, otey, qoty, ody, qok, qoy, qod, eey, ...
With ED=5: qo, dy, ok, qy, ...
How does Stolfi's grammar generates <qokeedy> as well as <qokeed>, <qoked>, <qokd>, <qok>, and <qo>? Since the order of glyphs does not change it is easy to generate some type of grammar covering all the words as long as the elements can be optional. Stolfis grammar does this by using optional rules and by repeating elements n-times (with n=1,2,3,4,5). Therefore the grammar contains rules like the CrS-Rule (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):
CrS:
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OR
OR.OR
OR.OR.OR
OR.OR.OR.OR
This way Stolfi's grammar does in fact demonstrate the same as the following statement of D'Imperio: "There seem to be very strong constraints in combinations of symbols; only a very limited number of letters occur with each other letter in certain positions of a 'word'." (see Currier 1976 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). However in my eyes it is easier to understand D'Imperio's statement.