Re: VMs: Arguments against a code book?

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Jorge Stolfi wrote:
>   > [Nick Pelling:] if Voynichese were a simple-minded code-book [...]
>   > I think we might expect to see (1) rather more obvious matches
>   > between labels and text (etc) than we do.
> It has been several years since I looked at that question, but 
> my recollection is that there *is* a modest amount of correlation
> between the labels and the text.  It is not obvious that there 
> should be more. For example, imagine you have a one-page article 
> about Brazil, next to a map of the country with city and river
> names: how many of those names do you expect to show up in the
> article (or in the whole book)?

yah. take, par example, the "Older Edda".
The text becomes IMHO quite different, when it just lists the names 
(of goods and similar stuff).
this probably fits for many ancient and "holy" texts.

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