Re: VMs: Gordon Rugg in Scientific American

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On 23 Jun 2004 at 14:29, Mark G Lee wrote:

		> Any comments?
		> 
		> Regards
		> Mark
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Hi Mark,


The best comments on this are the no-comments and minimal comments 
that you have been reading. Being rash by nature, here are mine.


It is a good project. I like it. I do not like the presentation: It 
is overly represented. I take that as a common result of natural 
enthusiasm. I have been intoxicated with less - for a while. I still 
do not like it. My remarks might be colored because of that.


What is to be said about the production of a thousand strings of 
letters by re-arranging 1400 components that someone else has already 
categorized? Maybe the manuscript was done that way. Maybe it was 
done with three ouija boards. If an algorithm for English syllable 
generation is well thought out it can produce faux English. It would 
hardly prove itself the origin of English. I will bet that many of us 
have tried to produce Voynichese look-alike text. A fair game 
requires a minimum amount of information from Voynichese, itself. 
Otherwise, I would say, we are operating in cheat mode; copying 
rather than originating.


About the article having been published by Scientific American: 
Puzzled. I cannot understand the mileage given to one of the many --  
spin-off curios from early discoveries by others.  All the editor had 
to do for perspective was to look at one of the outstanding websites.


About the New Hope for the world of research: I had better pass.


Ciao ...... Knox


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