23-04-2026, 10:33 PM
Quote:The results for that are strong, indicating that there is almost no connection from the last words to the first words of the next line. This, under my opinion, doesn't happen in a "normal" text and is a clue that we should take into account.
I agree. This is unnatural.
In real text you can predict the next word with some probability based on the previous word. For example if you have an English sentence "I am washing..." then there are a few obvious choices for the next word like "I am washing myself", "I am washing dishes" or even "I am washing my dog" but over 99% of other words won't fit there.
There is one case where the next word becomes very unpredictable - the end of sentence. But assuming that each line of Voynich text is full sentence would be very weird. Such things may happen in poetry but we don't have a slightest hint that Voynich is poetry.
There is such concept in Voynich studies as LAAFU - Line as a Functional Unit. I believe this observation may be considered as a part of LAAFU. It is indeed a big puzzle and something not happening in real texts.