Re: VMs: RE: A & B Tokens and Titles....

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm starting with words as the obvious indicator,
> looking at several aspects
> or "groupings".  Given that the first [hb] page
> starts at 26r, what relation
> is there between these pages and the [ha] pages
> before 26r?  The groupings
> are:
> 
> Unique words, locate only on this page in the herbal
> section
> Words that occur only before 26r
> Words that occur only after 26r
> Words that occur only in [ha] pages
> Words that occur only in [hb] pages
> Words that occur primarily before 26r but occur
> occasionally in [hb] pages.
> Words that occur commonly throughout both [ha] and
> [hb] pages.
> 
> I'm adding the single folio 57r to the study to
> complete the initial herbal
> section.  I'm not so bold as to expand this to other
> herbal folios until
> I've understood the intended "progression" of the
> first section.
> 
> Here's a test run of only words that are unique to
> the folios in the herbal
> section.
> 
> http://voynich.info/vgbt/xcrptn/unique.pdf
> 
> (I think I saw something like this on Stolfi's site
> once).  A percentage of
> these words are due in part to the descriptive
> nature of the transcription,
> but the general perception is enough to allow one to
> begin to ask more
> definite questions in mathematical terms.  More
> later......

This is a very interesting ath to follow.
What is very important though is that in order
to judge if anything is 'odd' it should be
compared with a similar analysis of a known
text in a known langauge. Certainly, one can
count the number of unique words on VMs pages
(has been done before), and there will be pages
that have relatively many or relatively few.
But is the overall number unusual or actually 
quite normal? 

Cheers, Rene

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