VMs: Entropy of glossolalia text?

[sethm@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I've been on the list now for something like five years, and for
most of that time my preferred theory (and I stress, just a theory)
has been that the Voynich Manuscript is a hoax, most likely one
perpetrated during the 16th century.  I have assumed that the text
is essentially glossolalia: Psuedorandom text written at great length
by one or more authors using an invented set of characters.

But I don't know precisely how much research has been done on this
angle.  We've seen in the past that the VMs has a fairly low entropy.
If the VMs really is written glossolalia, then we'd expect that
glossolalia has similarly low entropy.  So far, I've been unable to
find any sample written glossolalia texts to analyze, but I'm keeping
my eyes out.  It makes sense that glossolalia _would_ be low entropy,
but I'd like that statement to be backed up by some evidence!  Try it
yourself:  Try to fill a page with random "foreign" sounding words,
trying to avoid using real words in any language you know.  Whenever
I've tried it, I've found quite a bit of regularity in the text.
This is what I assume happened with the VMs.  Now I'm looking for
real evidence.

If anyone has any glossolalia references, please do send them my way,
I'd appreciate the help.

Thank you!

-Seth
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Seth Morabito
sethm@xxxxxxxxxxx
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