04-09-2016, 05:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-09-2016, 07:18 PM by ThomasCoon.)
(04-09-2016, 05:09 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-09-2016, 01:48 AM)ThomasCoon wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, I actually think that the spaces in text are completely fake. I think that he wrote large words (ex. "vocabulary") into two words: ("vocab-ulary").
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It works the other way, as well. Word-tokens that appear to be unique can frequently be broken into two (or occasionally three) commonly used units which means that any attempt to ascribe special meanings to "unique" vords might be a misassumption for some or all of them.
I'm sorry, I didn't explain clearly what I was thinking: agree that it's a misassumption to ascribe any meaning to any unique vord. In my opinion, each line should be written without spaces and then broken down into the units I've described. I think it's possible he wrote a plaintext word (like "vocabulary") as "vocab-ulary" but also "voca bu lary" or "vo cab ula ry" etc.
Quote:I think this remark by Brian is an important one:
Quote: wrote:If the only idea is that the text is made from your units, we would expect to frequently find words like amameeqo or chchchch, but we don't.
There is more to the structure of Voynichese words, and I'm not sure if it can be explained just by word breaks.
One interesting test would be to somehow try to encrypt a known text into Voynichese using your system, and see to what extent you manage to approach its appearance.
Brian and Koen:
I believe that many ch (ee) and other 2-letter combinations are hidden: for example, one "c" is at the end of a word while the next "c" is at the beginning of the following word. As I said above I don't believe the spaces mean anything. Here is a paragraph that supports my belief (f1v):
In blue are all the < o+l > units. In the red boxes you might think my theory breaks down because there is only <l> - but the <o> that they need is on the preceding word both times.
(04-09-2016, 08:44 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.One interesting test would be to somehow try to encrypt a known text into Voynichese using your system, and see to what extent you manage to approach its appearance.
I will do that today with a Latin text and a German one.