A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text
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(19-05-2026, 09:01 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That's self-citation. Nothing more. Three steps from the absolute simplest possible action:

3. Copy and modify from varying visible sources → looks like language

No rules, no tables, no algorithms, no dice.

Except that 
  • You need a seed text (a "visible source") to start the process.
  • The modify step must respect the complex word structure.
  • You need dice to choose which word to copy and how to modify it.
  • The word distribution must be invariant under the modify step.
Without the last precaution, in particular, the word distribution will evolve along the document in ways that we simply don't see.

Your proposed gibberish generation method is anything but simple.  It is as complex as the Voynichese "language", with all its statistical and structural peculiarities.

All the best, --stolfi
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RE: A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text - by Jorge_Stolfi - 19-05-2026, 10:03 PM

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