VMs: RE: Voynich analysis

["Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

I began doing that a few years ago;  I would have to dig out my old materials.  I went through too many revisions and reassessments of the phonemic value of the Voynich letters.

Ji Comegys

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> From: 	Jeff
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> I have a couple of questions for anyone with any
> knowledge of the following subjects.
> 
> 1. Has a general dictionary of word forms been created by anyone. A sort of
> Oxford Voynich dictionary, for want of a better phrase.
> 
> 2. Have individual sections of the manuscript had their own dictionaries
> created to use as a comparison with the other sections for word frequency.
> 
> This is exactly what I would do. Then the frequency of word patterns from
> each section could be cross matched for frequency against the other
> sections.
> This way any topic specific word forms could be anchored to the section
> topic. If all word forms in the dictionaries are evenly distributed across
> topic sections then the probability is high that the content is a hoax and
> is meaningless. Certain word forms such as the definite and indefinite
> articles would be evenly distributed across topics whereas nouns such as
> petal, leaf or stem would appear more regularly in the herbal section.
> 
> Has anyone thought of construction such a dictionary?
> 
> Also, does anyone know where the bare text can be obtained minus the
> notes etc? I want to write a syntax parser that does not rely on
> determination
> of meaning, but rather word correlation and placement between sections. I
> would also be willing to build the various dictionaries if they do not
> already
> exist.
> 
> regards
> 
> Jeff Haley.
> 
> 
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