Is Voynich more similar to grammatical or ungrammatical text?
The VMS doesn't look like randomly scrambled text, IIRC, word entropy is comparable with some written languages (while scrambling results in maximum entropy). But some of the most prominent patterns are different from written languages.
1. There are different sections with different word types.
2. There are positional preferences in lines and paragraphs, like y-/s- line-initially and -m line finally. There also are the patterns discussed in Patrick Feaster's Malta paper.
3. Last-first combinations: e.g. words ending -y prefer to be followed by words starting q- (also discussed in a Cryptologia paper by Emma May Smith and myself). I guess this affects Davidd's graphs.
4. Identical or similar words tend to appear consecutively.
The VMS doesn't look like randomly scrambled text, IIRC, word entropy is comparable with some written languages (while scrambling results in maximum entropy). But some of the most prominent patterns are different from written languages.
1. There are different sections with different word types.
2. There are positional preferences in lines and paragraphs, like y-/s- line-initially and -m line finally. There also are the patterns discussed in Patrick Feaster's Malta paper.
3. Last-first combinations: e.g. words ending -y prefer to be followed by words starting q- (also discussed in a Cryptologia paper by Emma May Smith and myself). I guess this affects Davidd's graphs.
4. Identical or similar words tend to appear consecutively.