Re: VMs: AW: [ha] [hb] not different languages

[Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sebastian surmised;
> 
> one thing i thought about is, that it might have something to do with
> the personal education of the author. maybe author1(or 2) was not so
> well educated as author2(or 1) and so he used some simpler style of
> articulating the things he would like to say.
> like the lingo that a professor use is different from the lingo of a
> first grade student which use for example less technical terms or less
> bloated phrases.

Barbara babbles;
Hmmm, very interesting Seb'. Has anyone ever done a FOG index on the
voynich "hands"?
I forget both the exact calculation formula, and what FOG stands for,
but it determines the educational level (years of full time education)
nessesary to read a written work. Thinking backwards it also determines
the education needed to write a peice too ;-)
Barbara
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