[Conference] Voynich conference - Some questions

[cbowern]

A quick note that these questions (at least the ones directed and Daniel Gaskell and me) don't actually have anything to do with the papers we are presenting at the conference, which investigate the types of character distributions that occur in gibberish and in different patterns of (more and less plausible) enciphered natural language. That is, our papers are agnostic about what Voynichese is (hence "Enciphered after all" vs "Gibberish after all" as titles). Our aim is to establish comparanda, not to advance a particular a priori hypothesis. Too much Voynich study consists of forming an opinion and picking data to support it. More generally, we're looking at the weight of evidence for/against contrasting hypotheses.

Hoping the questions for all papers during the conference are on point and in the spirit of collective inquiry