Ruby's Greek Thread

[pfeaster]

I don't quite understand your example, are you trying to show that languages belonging to different families can have homophones?

No -- I was trying to apply the decipherment technique you've been using to another set of data in which I know that the script doesn't match the language.

You've been able to match individual Voynichese words to individual Greek words, and I've been able to match individual Slovenian words to individual Turkish words.

What differences do you see between my strategy for matching Slovenian to Turkish and your strategy for matching Voynichese to Greek?

For example, the twelve most frequent Greek words, which you quote, in my opinion, provide very little information and in a very ordered text, such as a collection of recipes, for example, would perhaps be in the minority.

Perhaps, if the whole text consists of stuff like "add three teaspoons oregano, one tablespoon coriander, then whisk vigorously until well mixed"; but even then, wouldn't the list of most common Currier B words ([chedy], [Shedy], [daiin], etc.) still provide an enormously important clue?  Maybe even more of a clue than it otherwise would?