(12-08-2024, 08:03 AM)obelus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(09-08-2024, 03:36 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....the scribe might introduce new spelling variants. For example, he could decide to add [aiin] alongside [daiin]. This change would affect only the text generated after [aiin] was introduced, leading to observable developments in the manuscript. Decide for yourself whether the patterns observed in the Voynich text align with this description.
OK, let us attempt to decide on quantitative grounds.
The minimal model is a scribe working page by page from top down.
My statement is about "developments in the manuscript" and not about a "development on a page". See for instance the distribution for the vords [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.] and [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.], or the distribution of vords containing [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.].
Note: "Of course, it is possible to pinpoint quantitative differences between the real VMS and the used facsimile text (most likely any facsimile text). An example is the quantitative deviation of the <q>-prefix distribution from the original VMS text. However, we are not aware of any statistical property of the VMS that qualitatively contradicts our proposed self-citation algorithm. We deliberately did not fine-tune the algorithm to pick an 'optimal' sample for this presentation. ... Keep in mind that the VMS was created by a human writer who had complete freedom to vary some details of the generating algorithm on the spur of a moment. An exact reproduction of all of his/her mental rules is not only most likely impossible, but would still leave the problem of unpredictable random (aesthetic) decisions." [Timm & Schinner, 2020, p. 15]