Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg's experiment

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rafal,

> One thing that I do not quite seem to understand
> about
> the method is how the tables from which the text is
> generated
> were constracted? If Gordon Rugg produced them on
> the basis
> of statistical features of the VMS, aren't the
> tables
> just a transformation of the "deep structure" of
> Voynichese?
> It does not say anything about the creation of the
> language
> (or structured gibberish) itself. Or maybe I just
> don't
> understand (I have not seen the Cryptologia article
> - just
> tried to follow the discussion and read Gordon
> Rugg's Web pages).

You are correct. The method he presents is based on
the known statistical properties of the VMs text.
These statistics were obtained by Stolfi (which
Gordon clearly acknowledges), and I am sure that
Stolfi used means that were not available to Kelly :-)

Thus, in my opinion, he presents a method to copy
the VMs. Not one to generate it.
Had there been some clever structure to the tables
out of which the VMs properties arose, it would
have been a far more interesting theory, in my
opinion.

This is one of my two main objections about his
method.

Cheers, Rene

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