14-08-2025, 07:03 PM
(14-08-2025, 03:43 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Let's not digress and get back to the topic of this thread.
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The Voynich script, therefore, does not behave like a natural language. It could be said that the script follows a flat Zipf, but that only demonstrates the prejudice of wanting to assimilate the Voynich script to a natural language.
Of course the script has a structure, but not the one that corresponds to a natural language.
That's right where we are, at the topic:
you are mixing "Zipf law and the VMS" with Zipf & Voynichese, which is a language nobody knows yet.
Apart from the need of fully written numbers in the script, there might be also written a substantial amount of
- verses / poems
- prayers
- song texts
- tales
with imaginable high counts of rhymes, repetitions and similarities.
What would be the Zipf result or "entropy" for a "Pater Noster", the "rosary" or several more simple songs?
Could you judge the whole nature of a language under such conditions even upon a long book text?
And one more: the VMS is visibly not made in a quality good enough for royals, higher scholar or clerics.
At a time when most people had none or just a few years school education and the most inhabitants of Europe could not or just hardly read, what consequences would that have for a book, targeted to adult readers of the second or third line best, who maybe had not more than ~4 years schooltime?
Easy language, simple wording, often repeated?
If you want to compare the VMS, in this case it may be compared best to today's 5th grade school books and children's books.
What are Zipf and entropy for modern 5th class books...? And what would that say about the underlying language?
Or in short: I can not give very much upon such results...

