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

["Mark Winn" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> --- 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.

Or that the pen holds just so much ink and had to be redipped every 2
letters?


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