Re: VMs: Voynich analysis

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Jeff Haley wrote:
> > Certain word forms such as the definite and indefinite
> > articles would be evenly distributed across topics whereas nouns such as
> > petal, leaf or stem would appear more regularly in the herbal section.

I think it would be a great step forward if you can even prove (or 
disprove) that the word boundaries in the ciphertext correspond to word 
boundaries in the plaintext. From the lack of dictionariness (or should I 
say concordance?), it seems to me (and to many others) that they probably 
don't - but even [dis]proof of such an apparently easy thing is apparently 
far from trivial.

And I'd predict that definite and indefinite articles are probably even 
more difficult to lock down - for example, the astrological labels don't 
seem to comprise enough of a sample to be sure, etc.

However, like most people here, I'd love to be proved wrong on just about 
any count. :-) 


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