Quote:If anyone can think of other controls or tests that could help to better discriminate between possible models, they would be most welcome.
For some time I wanted to suggest some test.
People often say that Voynichese is similar to numbers, especially Roman numbers with sequences like CCC and III.
So what if we made some code with Roman numbers.
Lets take some text, may be the Book of Genesis. Assign Roman numbers to words - I,II,III, ..., LXXI, LXXII ...and so on. If the word repeats then reuse the number of course.
It would word as some huge code cipher and may be the closest thing to Voynich text I can imagine.
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Would you be interested to test such text if I made and uploaded it here?
I believe it could also make clusters of similar words as you would assign subsequent numbers to plaintext words.
And one question - do you need the text broken into pages?
It would make possibly the mi