The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

@ Stolfi, since you’re basically not saying anything really new anymore, and I can’t really add anything new to this either—except to throw even more statistics into the mix, which you’ll again only partially acknowledge—I’m calling it quits on this discussion. It’s a waste of both our time.

Okay, if you are not convinced by the evidence I have, I don't know what else I can say now.  I hope one day you will see the light.

But I don't see which statistics you are referring to.  The Sh-qo attraction?  I have replied to those, and I don't see how they contradict the SPS=SBJ claim or the Chinese Theory in general.  That "attraction" seems to be specific to certain words, not to the Sh character.  And And any natural language, including all East Asian ones, will have such "attractions" between words.

It also bothered me that you’ve now simply declared your theory to be proven—even though there are still significant weaknesses

Well, *I* find the evidence irrefutable.  I see practically zero probability that all those coincidences I found are due to mere chance.  

And I also cannot understand why people refuse to acknowledge that the statistics of Voynichese are quite compatible with an East Asian monosyllabic language, and quite INcompatible with any European language, any plausible encryption scheme, and any plausible gibberish generation method (yes, including copy-an-mutate).

But, sigh, such is Bayes...

What I find particularly interesting is that the oddities mentioned here simply disappear when the VMS is read backward

How could that be?  If there was some "remote attraction" between a Sh at the start of a token and a qo at the start of the next token, in the reversed text there will necessarily be a "remote attraction" between a Sh at the end of a token and an oq at the end of the previous token.  

And probably there will be also "remote attraction" between an oq at the end of a token and a Sh at the end of the next token.

But for me, a theory is only proven if it can explain these peculiarities of the VMS AND make the plain text readable.

Well, the SPS=SBJ "theory" does explain all the peculiarities of the text that I know of, and it did produce the plain text -- even for the four missing pages.  Except that the order of the plain text parags ("recipes") in the VMS is still to be determined; but I am working on that.

All the best, --stolfi