16-11-2025, 09:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-11-2025, 09:37 PM by Mark Knowles.)
If one is producing a filler text for a cipher then how would one do it. What is the best way to design a filler text?
This is not an easy question to answer.
What I would observe is that to produce meaningless words involves more mental energy (i.e. thought) the more original and imaginative they are and when producing a very long document the mental energy and time required to produce the optimal set of filler words might be too costly. So, a simpler way to produce filler words would to copy and modify the real words one has written in the text and to use standard word structures or patterns to generate common filler words. This is what I think explains the types of filler words we see in the Voynich. It is also for this reason that I think words with the more distinctive and original spellings are more likely to be real words than words with the more repetitive spellings. I hope at some stage to present my research into distinctive words in the Voynich.
This is not an easy question to answer.
What I would observe is that to produce meaningless words involves more mental energy (i.e. thought) the more original and imaginative they are and when producing a very long document the mental energy and time required to produce the optimal set of filler words might be too costly. So, a simpler way to produce filler words would to copy and modify the real words one has written in the text and to use standard word structures or patterns to generate common filler words. This is what I think explains the types of filler words we see in the Voynich. It is also for this reason that I think words with the more distinctive and original spellings are more likely to be real words than words with the more repetitive spellings. I hope at some stage to present my research into distinctive words in the Voynich.