Re: VMs: Re: Word distribution

["Maurizio M. Gavioli" <mmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:18 06/03/2004 +0100, Rafal T. Prinke wrote:
> Nick Pelling wrote:
>
> > Again, I understand and accept your point here: perhaps the assertion I'm
> > trying to reach towards is that single-instance Voynichese words seem to
> > take up a much larger proportion of the dictionary than in natural 
> languages.
>
> This feature seems to point towards highly inflected languages.
> Has it been compared with Slavic or Ugro-Finnish ones?
> A comparision with English - without a Voynichese lemmatizer -
> does not really say much about its similarity to natural languages
> in general (or in Europe).

Maybe looking to Latin or Greek would be enough?

And:

At 23:15 06/03/2004 -0800, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> [...] I remember having
> tested it against a plain text, and I remember
> coming to the conclusion that the statistics of
> the PT were similar to that of the VMs.
> I don't have the numbers anymore, and I am not
> sure what the PT language was. I am guessing
> Vulgate Latin.

I belive that, if the comparison text was indeed Latin, the result is not 
so surprising.

        Maurizio


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