Newbie greetings

[Corey Snow <cyclometh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all. My name is Corey Snow and I'm a recent
inductee to the Voynich MS mystery. I haven't even
finished D'Imperio's book yet, but I'm working on it.
;-)

I haven't formed any real opinions (yet) about the
manuscript's content or underlying source language.
I'll let you know when I do. :-)

My first project, actually, is something which I
wanted to ask you folks about first, as a means of
gauging its usefulness. I'm not a linguist, a
cryptographer, or any of the other disciplines one
would think would be necessary for this kind of thing.
However, I am a computer programmer and database
designer.

My thought is to write a program to parse the Voynich
MS in all of the major transliterated character sets
and place into a database every character combination
(including spaces) that the script has, from 2
characters up to about 10 or 15. My back-of-the
envelope calculation seems to indicate that there
would be about 3 to 5 hundred thousand combinations
per character set, a trivial task to store in a good
database.

Made searchable, a system like this would allow for
determination of things such as character frequency,
but also allow one to definitively determine if a
particular character occurs only paired with another,
thus leading to the assumption that they are probably
actually one character. It could give frequency
distribution for any combination of characters in the
system, from 2 to the maximum length read by the
parser. I have considered a number of uses for such a
database, and I'm sure you all can come up with more,
assuming that I'm correct in thinking that this would
be useful at all.

Comments, questions, flames? ;-)

Best regards,

Corey Snow
cyclometh@xxxxxxxxx

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