Speculative fraud hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

voynich-length output that looks similar enough

The question is what "similar" means.  To someone who has never seen English text, this sentence may look "similar enough" to English:

  reasluione ogb qaj pan thoght rjaluio zwoj chus balbe cyat of exvwh
  ij fe k resovutio ys vcklyed nepr oizkh ut reolta is evckloed evw
  ovqery os tjhoyghd rvulutin oaje pnlae apesvtpb tmovgh asaluqone


The previous message pointed out that, in the output of their test run, "70% were Voynich words"; implying that the similarity criterion was just that, namely the percentage of words (word instances or word forms, not clear) that were in the VMS lexicon.  If that was the criterion, then the "divergence" (a drop in the similarity as the algorithm progresses) is a problem, because it means that a significant part of the similarity was due to the fact that the seed text had been taken from the VMS.

All the best, --jorge