Hi,
the low character entropy of Voynichese contradicts the expansion approach that you propose for decoding the frequent glyphs y, l and d. For instance, dy occurs in ~18% of tokens; there is no language in which "sama" or any other quadgram occurs with such a high frequency.
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the low character entropy of Voynichese contradicts the expansion approach that you propose for decoding the frequent glyphs y, l and d. For instance, dy occurs in ~18% of tokens; there is no language in which "sama" or any other quadgram occurs with such a high frequency.
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Rene Zandbergen wrote:Compression of a string of characters means an increase in entropy, while the inverted process (de-compression of the compressed file) a decrease in entropy. Thus, a process converting a plain text with higher entropy to the Voynich MS text is equivalent with some kind of expansion. Now, replacing Voynich MS characters with further expansion will not increase the entropy, but rather reduce it (8). Because of what has just been described here, the Voynich MS text has occasionally been called (or compared with) a verbose cipher (9).