(01-02-2020, 04:45 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is it really that simple?
Maybe you're right about c cc ccc as moon phases.
But the moon also has the other possibility.
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Why don't I see that, and what about the other glyphs ?
You post gave me a sudden fleeting urge to put on my finest tinfoil hat and start talking about how Stolfi’s terms “core, mantle, and crust” are originally planetological terms.
@Antonio, several VMS researchers have come up with flowcharts for building a valid Voynichese word. It would be interesting to see a comparison of all the Build-a-Vord algorithms devised thus far, to see which of them is capable of generating A) the greatest number of unique types in the manuscript, and B) the largest fraction of VMS text, taking type-token ratio into account.
If we had a set of rules that accounted for >95% of types and/or tokens, it would seem to me one could calculate a reasonable estimate for the number of possible states, for each sequential step in the vord-building process, and for the system as a whole. By way of comparison, each of the four components of an IP address has 256 possible values, so 256*256*256*256 is the number of possible unique IP addresses. I’d be interested in seeing what factors make up this number in the best Build-a-Vord algorithm we’ve got.
If Voynichese is a conlang directly expressing meaning (rather than vocal sounds), or as you put it a visual code, breaking the system down into component degrees of freedom and the number of possible values for each, might give us a clue as to what sorts of information packets the system would be ideal for recording. If the VMS is meaningful but not linguistic, then given the small glyph inventory, rigid glyph positioning, and low Shannon entropy, a reasonable assumption is that it is practically and parsimoniously tailored to the type of data documentation it was designed for.