Re: VMs: RE: King Tut Word Game, or the EKT Hypothesis

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Graham Waddingham wrote:
> 
> Interesting idea, but no cigar I think. I can read messages written in
> this code almost in real time, and this was on my very first attempt.
> Also theres just too much predictability, y is always followed by e, b
> is followed by u 50% of the time etc. 

	Maybe so.  As I said, the substituents could be
multiple short words.  
One would be this in Voynichese's frequent
repetitions.  The repetitious 
groups don't seem to be straightforward CV , CVC, etc.
groups.  

	Perhaps the paradigms observed for Voynichese words
are a better guide.  
Rene Zandbergen's papers "The Voynich Manuscript: 
Entropy Not So Low After All" 
and "The Voynich Manuscript:  From  Character Entropy
to Word Entropy"  seem to 
indicate that a central core carries the bulk of the
meaning.  A long time ago, 
Tiltman noted the "prefix-core-suffix" structure of
Voynichese.  Stolfi has 
come up with paradigms that fit very closely.  Could
the core be the word in 
the original language, and the prefixes and suffixes be
nulls, or word game elements?  

Dennis
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