(12-05-2023, 02:18 PM)dfs346 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further thoughts on a possible alphabetic sorting of the glyphs within the Voynich "words" (as implied by Massimiliano Zattera's paper at the Voynich 2022 conference)
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This is quite interesting for me, because I did a similar experiment in the earlier days of the original Voynich mailing list.
My purpose was to see if sorting the characters in words of any known plain text would reduce the bigram entropy sufficiently to bring it close to Voynichese levels. If I remember correctly, I also alternated vowels and consonants in the
output words in order to create patterns.
I was also concerned about the impact of anagrams, i.e. multiple plain text words mapping to the same pattern, and
found that this hardly happens. This is something that I now understand better, and the reason is included in some of the
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namely that languages like English 'spend' way too many characters in order to distinguish words. This is why such text
can be compressed well.
This would not be the case (at all) if the words were enumerated and replaced by the corresponding number.
It also won't work with Vonichese text.
Finally, the conclusion I had to draw was that such a procedure does not reduce the bigram entropy anywhere near
enough.