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Actually, the line I am working on (not Welsh) is showing promise (OK, a
few words fit - I'm sure nobody has gotten that far before <grin>)
I believe that the reason the left/right entropy falls apart is that the
words are "smashed" together. ie I translate one Voynich Word (don't have
the Voynich character set here) as debirden = de birden "the birth". The next
word may be "of ???")
Of course I have no idea how that affects Rene's numbers if that is
true.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> bernd.neuner@xxxxxx 01/24/03 07:59AM >>> I would just like to add one remark to the objections already submitted by others against interpreting the VMS groups as words (of any language): The results of the paper recently mentioned by Rene (Akinori Ito, Observation of left and right entropy in Voynich MS) clearly exclude that possibility (IMHO). Though my knowledge of Welsh is rather shallow, I would expect that every Welsh word would - as in other European languages - influence its immediate surroundings, that is, increase/decrease the probability of being preceded/followed by certain other words. Example: Verbs tend to be follwed rather by non verbs. The Ito paper points out that this is not the case in the VMS. In other words: the left/right word entropies suggest that the VMS symbol groups are virtually context-independent. Am I missing something? Best regards, Bernd ______________________________________________________________________________ Verleihen Sie Ihren E-Mails eine persoenliche Note mit WEB.DE FreeMail http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021139 |