Re: VMs: Slightly modified VMS generator output

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Every one here is making the unfounded assumption
> that because a word that
> is generated by an algorithm does not appear in the
> VMS text it cannot be
> valid. In the case of an artificial language the VMS
> will be a subset of a
> universal set. If the method can generate every word
> in the subset then how
> can it be said that the extra words are not part of
> the universal set that
> the author chose not to select?

That's a very epibrating (*) argument.
However, your text had too many such words -
in fact the majority. The claim that your text
is not Voynichese is far more easy to defend
than the claim that these words are as yet unknown
Voynichese words. Besides, let's stick to 
translating just the VMs, not every possible text
that could have been written in Voynichese :-/

BTW: there are about a dozen missing pages in 
the VMs. Someone could make an educated guess
about the number of words it may have contained,
which only occur there, and not on the pages
we have.
Furthermore, it is almost certain that the key
to the VMs is not on those missing pages.

Cheers, Rene

(*) Epibrating is an English word that has never
been used before. I just used it for the first
time. 


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