RE: VMs: RE: Very important message!

["Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: 	John D. Comegys
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> Subject: 	Re: VMs: RE: Very important message!
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> Hi John,
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> I have to sit down and really squint.  The last time I looked at pages 1 obv. and rev.  I would have sworn they were the only pages in the MSS that were NOT encrypted.  But that was almost three years ago so I have to look again with a fresh perspective.  Jim 
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> Hi Jim,
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> What are the values for these letters in Voynichese? How do I read this stuff?
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> John
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> Jim Comegys wrote:
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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!
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> > > Hi Jeff,
> > >
> > > I will have a look at this.    What have other linguists told you?
> > >
> > > Jim Comegys
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> > >
> > > 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
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> > >
> > > 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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> > >
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