(08-06-2026, 01:59 PM)Labyrinthinesecurity wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why we collapse sh with ch
sh and ch behave somehow as allomorphs: collapsing sh→ch reduces character bigram conditional entropy by 3.0-3.7% with zero change in stream length. The effect is consistent across both dialects and both stronger in H2 than in H1 (ratio 2.8-3.1x).
Collapsing all characters to X will reduce the entropy to zero with zero change in stream length. I'm not sure how this is an explanation for collapsing sh with ch. Also, isn't the problem with Voynichese that the conditional entropy is already too low?