The geomantic theory

[JustAnotherTheory]

Your examples look okeyish

Most accidentally EVA-word in the English language?

Hahaha

[ReneZ]

Your examples look okeyish

Most accidentally EVA-word in the English language?

Hahaha

 lol 

[JustAnotherTheory]

@ReneZ, I would be interested in hearing your opinion about this geomantic method of generating Voynichese. What do you think, would such a method be plausible for the early 1400s? Do you think this idea has some merit (any at all)?

Or just a waste of everyone's time.

Any kind of input from experts such as yourself would be appreciated.

[oshfdk]

@ReneZ, I would be interested in hearing your opinion about this geomantic method of generating Voynichese. What do you think, would such a method be plausible for the early 1400s? Do you think this idea has some merit (any at all)?

I'm no René, but I doubt René is a clairvoyant. To actually assess your method much more data is needed, which I think at least 3 people have already said in this thread. Either there should be a precise specification of how to generate a few pages of text this way using random inputs or you could generate a few pages yourself and share the result and the exact method.

If you want just a gut feeling, then I'd say this method won't work, because it lacks any sophisticated mechanism to explain many statistical peculiarities of Voynichese.

[JustAnotherTheory]

generate a few pages of text this way using random inputs or you could generate a few pages yourself and share the result and the exact method.

Thanks for the feedback! I will start work on this right now.

[ReneZ]

@ReneZ, I would be interested in hearing your opinion about this geomantic method of generating Voynichese. What do you think, would such a method be plausible for the early 1400s? Do you think this idea has some merit (any at all)?

Or just a waste of everyone's time.

Any kind of input from experts such as yourself would be appreciated.

My answer might disappoint you....

This is one of quite a few threads that I don't read in detail because it does not seem promising from the start.
All methods of generating random text have the same problem: they fail to explain the peculiar features of the MS text, except when the method is reverse-engineered from the text itself.

[JustAnotherTheory]

My answer might disappoint you....

This is one of quite a few threads that I don't read in detail because it does not seem promising from the start.
All methods of generating random text have the same problem: they fail to explain the peculiar features of the MS text, except when the method is reverse-engineered from the text itself.

Thank you very much, Mr, Z. To the contrary, I take such feedback as it is intended, an insightful criticism.

I've coded the algorithm in Python this afternoon, and tried to generate a full page of Voynichese. The result is that some phrases look Voynichese, while the page itself as a whole does not.

I conclude that either my initial parameters are wrong, or that the VMS was not generated in this manner. I think it is the latter.

Thanks again