VMs: RE: Very important message!

["Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: 	Jeff
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> Sent: 	Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:40 AM
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> Subject: 	VMs: Very important message!
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I will have a look at this.    What have other linguists told you?  
> 
> Jim Comegys
> 
> 
> 
> The following is what I believe to be decoded text from the Voynich
> Manuscript. Yes you read it right DECODED. It is four of the five lines from
> F1r.P1. Note I have written the letter frequencies found underneath. These
> came straight out when run manually through the decryption algorithm. If I
> had not been right I would not have expected the frequency distribution. It
> startled me how the patterns emerged.
> 
> The text I have posted needs examination by a linguist to check which
> language would most match for the distribution. I know there is very little
> text here but I plan to do more pages as and when time permits. Could
> someone PLEASE examine this text for any known words. It could be in latin,
> french, english or rumanian for all I know, but these languages must have
> distinct frequency patterns. The text and character frequencies follow.
> 
> fcjfq    qikl    lr    rttiqv    fzvz    dzvfp    ava!!vw    q    iyf
> jzvzob!
> 
> hfp    amrhr    f!!p    ikiz    tjatiqv    fzhr    rrv    gvahr    tvahr
> udn!
> 
> qyiqz    jzloi    mf    pikiqv    fzvr    fvavorp    avalw    vdrriqv    fs
> 
> (THIS LINE OMITTED)
> 
> diz    p    ajler    tvahiqv    prwhr    thmhrqv
> 
> 
> Letter frequencies (not in percentages just straight letter counts).
> 
> v=20, r=17, i=14, f=12, z=11, a=11, q=11, h=9, p=7, t=7, j=5, l=5, d=4, k=3,
> o=3, w=3, m=3, y=2, b=1, c=1, g=1, u=1, n=1, s=1, e=1
> 
> P.S. The exclamation remarks remain as I did not have the character in the
> alphabet I used but the decryption method can cope with this. You can decode
> even with letters missing. Also can someone check the letter counts I made
> as they were all manual. This would greatly affect the choice of letter if
> the percentages are wrong. As I said earlier I will have more examples with
> letter counts asap. I hope to get a programme written to automate the task.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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