Re: apologies, Re: Anagrams, was Re: VMs: Original encoding scheme

Hi,

I have checked my earlier results and found that they were not correct. Of the 6167 words in FSG that I extracted from the interlinear v1.7 text there were 920 of 6167 that anagrammed to another word which comes out at 15%. The profile of highest counts looks similar to the other count by the percentage is a bit lower.

Top 10 anagrams:

8 CDGOT
8 8CDGOT
7 CCDGT
7 CCDGOS
6 CGHOT
6 CDGOS
6 8CGHOT
6 8CEOT
6 8CEGOT
6 8CDGOS

Sorry for the (programming) error, if you hear a thudding sound that is me hitting my head against the wall

Brett

Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The idea of looking at anagrams in Voynichese
and comparing woth other languages is, to my
knowledge, new. From the rigid word structure
that has been discussed in the past, I would expect
that Voynichese allows relatively fewer anagrams.
This has not yet been confirmed. In fact there
are two very different results. Of the different
possible causes:

- transcription alphabet: this could play a role
but it does not seem to be the case. Of the
first example:
> 7 chekody chokedy dcheoky dokechy ekchody
> kcheody ykechod
This remains unaffected when changing to Currier
or FSG. (See also below).

- The use of a complete text (with repeated words)
vs. a vocabulary (all words unique). This will
have a significant impact, and both checks could
be made in parallel. Use of the volcabulary is
a cleaner statistic, but is of cours! e more
sensitive to spelling or transcription errors
since a word accidentally spelled incorrectly will
weigh as much as the most frequent word in the
language.

That brings another possibility: transcription
errors or differences. Unclear spaces in the MS
are probably the biggest problem.

The 7-fold anagrammed word looks very interesting.
They seem variations of the common word "chedy" or
"cheody" with an additional gallows inserted almost
arbitrarily. I wonder if there is a pattern to
that. In fact, I am very curious whether these
words are all rare, and whether they occur near
each other in a single section or not.
The base word "chedy" is the most common
language-B word and is found in the Bio and
Stars/Recipes sections. The word "cheody" is more
a transition word (between A and B).

Cheers, Rene

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