MarcoP > 18-04-2021, 06:30 PM
(18-04-2021, 05:46 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would be curious to see what effect my "extreme lipogram" English text of 953 words with no use of the letters A, B, and C has on such statistics as the most frequent words, conditional entropy, etc. I know it will not have the statistical structure of the Voynich ms text. But I am just wondering how different it will be from normal English, and in which ways, and how such things show up in various statistical measures. As far as I know, it may be the only example of an "extreme lipogram" text with multiple letters excluded from the same text in a lipogrammatic style.
geoffreycaveney > 18-04-2021, 06:31 PM
(18-04-2021, 06:14 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-04-2021, 05:57 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, I have suggested earlier in this thread that the point could possibly be, for example, Yorkist English people, perhaps in northern France during the period of English control of that region in 1415-1429, communicating with each other in a cipher which also omitted entirely certain letters in the word "Lancaster", perhaps first of all omitting "L" and "A", for example.We have two threads going on here:The first would read "the House of ..."
- Arguing for a lipogrammatic text that excludes words
- Arguing for a lipogrammatic text that excludes letters
The second would read "the House of ncster". Which, I suggest, is hardly a difficult code to break.
(A real medieval encrypted text would have read "the House of DoolyDally", where DoolyDally is known by sender and receiver to be Lancaster).
davidjackson Wrote:The first quarter of the 15th century is exactly when the nobles transitioned from French to English.. it is impossible to say whether anybody in any position to be worried about who was reading their diaries would be written in Anglo-French or Norman
French at that time.
davidjackson Wrote:Anyway, back to my basic question that I always ask - if the whole thing is written in an unknown alphabet, why bother obfuscating the plain text?
davidjackson > 18-04-2021, 06:34 PM
MarcoP > 18-04-2021, 08:26 PM
(18-04-2021, 06:34 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP - would it be possible to arbitrarily add a couple of characters (representing, I dunno, two vowels that would have been removed in the lipogramatic text - we would have to calculate the normal appearance ratio of the character) to the VMS text and re-run the test?
davidjackson > 18-04-2021, 08:34 PM
Koen G > 18-04-2021, 08:49 PM