Aldis Mengelsons > 13-04-2019, 11:49 PM
(13-04-2019, 01:48 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(13-04-2019, 12:24 PM)Aldis Mengelsons Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[ From which page did you took that text??? translating its kinda interesting
Were you talking about the medieval sample, Aldis? It's folio 101 (original foliation) BAV Pal. Lat. 25.
bi3mw > 14-04-2019, 11:53 AM
geoffreycaveney > 14-04-2019, 12:16 PM
(14-04-2019, 11:53 AM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.When checking the word length in the VMS I received a very strange result. That does not look like one natural language to me, but as something "constructed". The result is the following:
Does anyone know any natural language that causes a similar result ? I always get much flatter, more homogeneous curves.
farmerjohn > 14-04-2019, 12:18 PM
(14-04-2019, 11:53 AM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.When checking the word length in the VMS I received a very strange result. That does not look like one natural language to me, but as something "constructed". The result is the following:
Does anyone know any natural language that causes a similar result ? I always get much flatter, more homogeneous curves.
bi3mw > 14-04-2019, 01:37 PM
Koen G > 14-04-2019, 02:43 PM
(14-04-2019, 01:37 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am very skeptical of an Asian origin. A whatever created construction seems more likely to me.
bi3mw > 14-04-2019, 03:56 PM
MarcoP > 14-04-2019, 04:10 PM
(14-04-2019, 03:56 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is also conceivable that the words are not separated as you would expect, but like this:
thiss ente ncei sjust anexa mpl efori rregu larc utting
Before that, of course, another step must be taken. Or the text actually consists of extreme abbreviations that are sufficient as "encryption".
geoffreycaveney > 14-04-2019, 05:09 PM
(14-04-2019, 04:10 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(14-04-2019, 03:56 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is also conceivable that the words are not separated as you would expect, but like this:
thiss ente ncei sjust anexa mpl efori rregu larc utting
Before that, of course, another step must be taken. Or the text actually consists of extreme abbreviations that are sufficient as "encryption".
This kind of arbitrary spacing is one of the many tweakings in Geoffrey's theory.
But You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are many more than the additional ones you get by ignoring spaces (47% vs 8%). And what about reduplication? Are repeating words "nulls" as Mark thinks?
Hammering Voynichese into Latin (or Greek) soon leads to rejecting larger and larger parts of the evidence.
I prefer to keep an open mind on the possible language, trying to consider all evidence as meaningful.
PS: Whoops, we are off topic again
-JKP- > 14-04-2019, 10:48 PM