Re: VMs: The Sun, The Moon and The Stars

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KarstenVMS@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Comprising
> that, the labels looks very constructed.
> And yes: I have seen multiple repetitions of a word too often also. It is  
> difficult,
> to think of any hand made encryption, that performs like this. On the other  
> hand,
> that contradicts the idea of arbitrary label choice, because why would  
> someone
> choose labels in a way like this admitting so obvious and  unauthentic 
> repetitions
> in the text? It is really a brainteaser. 


It seems that the same scrambling process that generates 3 repetitions 
of a word would also destroy repetitions in the plaintext. However, 
without a clear word ordering (such as in the case of labels and 
captions), a word-order based scheme would confuse even the document's 
intended audience.

It is intimidating to speculate, sensing the weight of previous years of 
speculation. But I think the key might be to speculate (or assume) the 
document's intended audience, and work backwards. Were they expected to 
read this at speed? Very slowly with a word book? And there remains the 
nagging signficance of the 2 dialects.

I think that this finding here 
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/00-12-21-word-length-distr/ 
indicates the furthest advance so far.


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