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

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene wrote:

> 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?

Good question - just happen to have an herbal and some other documents from
that time period recorded - we'll find out!

GC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Rene Zandbergen
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 6:54 AM
> To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: VMs: RE: A & B Tokens and Titles....
>
>
>
> --- 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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