Re: Voynich research needs

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> when I happened to run a simple statistical test (suggested by
> Bradley Schaefer).  If we map each Voynichese word to the number of gallows
> that it contains, we get the following text:
> 
>     ?1110110           110000000001       11110001
[snip]
>     0100110110         10100000           011100110
>     1101011001         00100010?          ...

This is a very interesting observation. I have one question.
Doesn't this clumping appear in other languages if we choose the 
right letters? 
There are very vague reasons to consider ktpf as the same class of 
letter (at least I am not 100% sure that they are the same). 

So far the issues suggesting that they could be are:
* Some are listed in Cappelli's Dict. as ornate forms
* They look similar
* Some (can't remember which) does not appear in the f 57 
sequence (so it may be an alternate form of another letter).
* They (f, p) occur at paragraph starting position.

But if I remember correct, the digraph distributions of the gallows 
were quite different.

Any comments?

Regards,

Gabriel