RE: VMs: Why VMs spaces behave like normal word spaces

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So: my guess is that most full spaces are fake, and
> that most half spaces 
> are real (mainly to help disambiguate the paired
> ciphertext). While you're 
> coming from the transcription end here, & I from the
> cipher end, between us 
> we're probably looking at the same thing here. :-)

The far simpler explanation is that 'half spaces'
are a result of the fact that the Voynich MS
was written by a human being, not a machine,
and that some of them are real spaces that happen to
be a bit short and others are the gaps between
adjacent characters that happen to be a bit long.
Two overlapping distributions, if you will.

So, with all due respect, and in the frame of
cordial exchange of opinions in the lack of
any way to prove anything, I would say that the
above: 
 > So: my guess is that most full spaces are fake,
 > and  that most half spaces are real 
is, at the moment, spaculation not substatiated
by anything.
Really, there is no time limit in
providing the substantiation :-)

Cheers, Rene

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