Re: VMs: f78r viewed as columns...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 20:34 29/10/2003 -0600, Dennis wrote:
>         I have the feeling that this is another manifestation
> of the paradigmatic nature of Voynichese "words".  We
> have had many analyses of this:  the Tiltman and Firth
> paradigms, Stolfi's crust-core-mantle paradigm and his
> Voynichese grammar, Antoine Casanova's analysis, Rene's
> entropy analysis showing that the middle of the word
> holds the most meaning, and without a doubt others...
>
>         I'm not disparaging your analysis, Nick!  Perhaps
> keeping all this in mind will give you some direction.
> Perhaps the question is, What is the most productive
> way to study the paradigmatic nature of Voynichese
> words?

My suspicion is that building Markov state machines to model each of the 
VMS' (sub-)languages would be a good first step towards being able to 
explicitly define what they are and how they differ. (Note that this 
doesn't 100% overlap with "Voynichese words" - spaces are often contentious 
and slippery things).

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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