A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text
(26-05-2026, 11:57 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Let me make it more specific and yet still manageable to create manually:

Excellent!  Now we're collaborating.  Here's the problem.

Your simple little 3 step idea just exploded into a whole pack of rules. 

It started as just make 20 or so words, some combinations, and random long words.

Now we're at: ranked weights, bigram starts, trigram chaining, final suffix constraints, fallbacks, and a 20-word rolling memory.

And my system would be too cumbersome for a 15th century scribe?  Do you see my point?  You've been opposed to this idea I have of using the ledger and you've been trying to say it's much simpler than that.  And it may well be. But so far, my ledger and "don't look stupid rules" are about a simple as it gets.

Can the Voynich be generated with the method you have?  It may be entirely possible.  Could a 15th century scribe use your method?  Possibly.  But, if so, we'd be arguing the same things you discounted my method for using.
  • local visual resemblance
  • copy/modify behavior
  • constrained production
  • family resemblance

Oh, and you suggested a trigram table?  Welcome to my world.  Let's just call it a ledger.
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RE: A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text - by Dunsel - 27-05-2026, 12:16 AM

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