Dunsel > Yesterday, 03:10 PM
(Yesterday, 01:50 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(Yesterday, 12:29 PM)Dunsel Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You keep moving into paleography, and that's not what I'm doing here. I'm not a paleographer and would be a fool to claim such.
I think trying to generate text without a theory that accounts for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., either implicitly or explicitly, is going to stand out to people who have taken the time to understand the script as missing key details. I appreciate that most of us are laypersons, and the experts talk about the problems of "silo-ing", but the text does not appear to be wholly independent of the paleography. It is a fair criticism to say that your one page ledger doesn't address core features of the text. To be sure, I don't think you have to adopt the CLS wholesale---I have some quibbles with how he treats EVA <l>, for instance---and Cham was not the first to observe the phenomenon, nor was his statement definitive. Likewise, there might be other ways to approach the issues raised by the CLS without relying on it specifically. However, the basic paradigm, that the first half of words have symbols based on EVA <e> and the second on EVA <i>, seems to hold. Your ledger system fails to capture these features and, to my eye, that looks quite far off the text. I don't think it's a much of a defense from these criticisms to say your approach is incomplete as much as it is a recognition that they have a lot of merit.
rikforto > Yesterday, 03:54 PM
(Yesterday, 03:10 PM)Dunsel Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Does my generator violate CLS? Yes. Does that mean the constraint system of my ledger is fundamentally wrong? No. It may mean that, if CLS is correct, then it's not taking the lower level constraint system of CLS into account.
Dunsel > Yesterday, 05:34 PM
(Yesterday, 03:54 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Crucially, however, your ledger, the one we are supposedly talking about, does not address these kinds of "lower-level" constraints. And that quite simply raises questions about the applicability of these findings to the VMS.
I also think you're selling the CLS short. These aren't "stroke habits", but a fundamental observation about how letterform and letter order correlate. With some exceptions---and a good deal of the paper is spent defining those exceptions---letters with a base of e precede letters with a base of i. This kind of ordering of letters is utterly atypical. Cham arguably could have done a better job linking this to the bigram entropy findings, which have amply shown that period manuscripts did not order letters like this, but there are few writings systems where words from one half of the alphabet show up in the former part of the word and the remainder in the latter, and certainly not in European corpora, and I think we can extend his write-up some charity on that score. Even if you think it's just a "stroke habit", it's fair to say a good ledger should account for it, and a fair criticism to note it doesn't.
His conclusion doesn't much matter to the point here, which is that your ledger does not respect the letter-ordering phenomenon. A ledger that does not substantially reproduce letter order is failing to capture one of the more striking parts of Voynichese text
Dunsel > Yesterday, 06:24 PM
bi3mw > 7 hours ago
oshfdk > 7 hours ago
(Yesterday, 06:24 PM)Dunsel Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In my paper and in this forum I believe I have further developed the work of Timm & Schinner and provided explanations for the following:
Dunsel > 5 hours ago
(7 hours ago)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I played around with your “Ledger Generator” for a bit. Specifically, I parsed my 485 tables on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. into JSON and converted them to your format. The whole thing is (obviously) syllable-based. Does the result look “Voynich-like” enough, or not?
Dunsel > 5 hours ago
(7 hours ago)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think you may have missed my last reply because it was at the bottom of a page, but I'd also like to say here a bit about why I personally don't find this research direction interesting (I'm talking about my perspective only) in the context of Timm & Schinner.
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GLOBAL STATISTICS
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Tokens : 9500
Types : 379
TTR : 0.0399
Hapax : 59
Chunk uses : 24337
Chunk types used : 271
Word length distribution
4 1830
5 1239
6 1622
7 2159
8 1520
9 791
10 211
11 127
12 1
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shey 358
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cheees 298
chos 293
shor 271
chees 211
qokchor 209
chal 168
chckhol 165
qokeey 160
shody 156
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chckhody 144
shod 124
otol 118
cheeaiin 109
qotchaiin 108
chcthod 104
chodalchy 103
shes 102
chcthey 100
chockhy 99
cheeey 99
qokchaiin 90
qokchol 89
okor 85
qokcheey 84
qokeeor 80
chopchol 78
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sh 1735
qo 1705
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ckh 1056
ody 926
or 920
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ot 726
cho 722
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ol 604
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y 448
ke 414
od 376
al 360
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os 315
chy 274
tch 259
ees 249
op 249
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ar 186
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ee 2417
ok 2375
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od 1924
ey 1923
hc 1590
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or 1345
kc 1329
ck 1324
kh 1324
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ol 875
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ct 851
th 851
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ii 835
ke 759
oc 673
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hy 525
da 460
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hod 1602
chc 1590
kch 1329
ckh 1324
hey 1293
qok 1231
che 1214
ody 1142
sho 1113
hee 1095
okc 1061
hor 995
hck 926
cth 851
aii 834
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eee 661
kho 626
hol 579
khe 568
kee 566
eey 547
cha 522
qot 428
otc 419
>>>bi3mw > 3 hours ago
(5 hours ago)Dunsel Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have stated that I am artistically impaired. Does it look Voynich like to me? Yes. Does it statistically match the Voynich?
Dunsel > 2 hours ago
(3 hours ago)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(5 hours ago)Dunsel Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have stated that I am artistically impaired. Does it look Voynich like to me? Yes. Does it statistically match the Voynich?
I'm not sure exactly which statistic you're thinking of, but you can check it yourself.