Re: VMs: Anagrammed Text

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone investigated the characteristics of texts in which all the
> words have been anagrammed into a certain order? It seems like this
> might explain both the tendency in the VMS of some letters to be
> initials and others finals, and the appearance of sequences of three or
> more of the same letter..
>
> (Excuse me if I nodded off while this was being discussed!)

Well yes, I suggested something like this only a few weeks ago.
The letters in Voynich words roughly conform to an ordering in which
q (almost) always precedes other letters, k precedes e, o precedes a
and so on: but there are very many exceptions. I have tried to
sort letters and words of natural language texts to imitate this
feature, but the main difficulty arises from other properties of
Voynich words - their tendency to contain only one example of each
letter, their restrictions on co-occurrence of letters (particularly
the gallows characters) and so on. Anagramming might explain some
features of Voynichese but it can't explain them all. See my page
http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/language.html

Philip Neal



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