15-08-2025, 06:50 PM
I'm not going to argue with Gabriel Landini or you because this isn't my field of knowledge. I just wanted to express my surprise that when I did simple calculations with a pocket calculator of the most frequent Voynich words, I didn't get the numbers predicted by Zipf's law. But I can accept what you both say without any problem.
What I will never be convinced of is that the Voynich script is a linguistic system. Neither European language, nor Asian language, nor language from any other part of the globe.
As you know, I have a thread arguing that script is an iconic code. This isn't the place to go into that, but I just wanted to point out that back in the 1970s, Professor William Bennett compared the entropy of the Voynich to the Hawaiian language, which for me is quite decisive, along with other features that demonstrate the impossibility of a language in the Voynich.
What I will never be convinced of is that the Voynich script is a linguistic system. Neither European language, nor Asian language, nor language from any other part of the globe.
As you know, I have a thread arguing that script is an iconic code. This isn't the place to go into that, but I just wanted to point out that back in the 1970s, Professor William Bennett compared the entropy of the Voynich to the Hawaiian language, which for me is quite decisive, along with other features that demonstrate the impossibility of a language in the Voynich.