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What rules to you suppose were used to determine null
insertion? If word ending rules were strict then nulls would need a similar
ruleset. Also which units do you see as null? I only see candidates for a
verbose structure. The placement of characters adheres to too rigid a structure
to allow the scribe any latitude.
Jeff
P.S. Nick I am finding quite a lot of evidence for some if not
all of your theories. I hope this doesn't disappoint too much.
:-)
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Sent: 31 March 2004 03:35
Subject: Re: VMs: Folio and Quire
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Jeff wrote:
Has anyone considered the idea that the pages may have been mixed up on
purpose by the author?
Another explanation would be two
scribes applying a non-deterministic algorithm (for example, "transliterate
this Latin text into Voynich characters, add some of the designated null
characters wherever you want, and if a character is 'final', be sure and leave
a space after it.")
(I would point out that, even though the placement
of nulls is non-deterministic, this process would be completely reversible to
someone who knew Latin and could figure out where the real word endings
were.)
I envision two scribes working from a stack of plaintext pages,
each applying the algorithm more or less consistently within his pages but
making different choices from the other scribe as to frequency and selection
of nulls. As each scribe finishes his page, he adds it to the pile which will become
the VMS and starts on a new one, thus causing the interleaving of languages A
and B when the encrypted pages are put in the same order as the plaintext
ones.
Bruce
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