Re: VMs: New vms 'words'

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Hello Jeff,
> 
> quick comments:
> 
> the sequence dck is always followed by h (or a 
> weirdo looking just like it). But k alone can
> also followed by o or y. Your examples starting
> with dcko or dcky are not found in any
> transcription of the VMs. 
> This means that your algorithm is not precise
> enough to prove what you're trying to prove.
> 
> More importantly: 
> - there are missing pages in the MS, 
> - how do we know if even the complete MS 
>   has 'exhausted' the vocabulary of Voynichese?
> 
> Your reasoning is quite interesting, but it 
> will be very difficult to present it as proof.
> 
> On an even more interesting note:
> I wonder what your test would conclude about
> a piece of (transcribed) Chinese.
> 
> Cheers, Rene
> 

It would most probably prove that I am an ass. :-)


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