Re: VMs: Arguments against a code book?

[djl@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jorge, this is very good!  The astrological section, particularly the
zodiac pages, seem to have many words that could start with Al- especially
the one star in pisces that we certainly know the name of, the hinge star
named not in the "circles" but in text in the representation of the
constellation itself ( I don't have the name here, but have mentioned it
previously). The first VM characters of that name are echoed in many star
names (if indeed that is what they are) in the rings of Pisces and the
other zodiacal pages.
I don't recall, but surely it's in the archives, the Zipf's law constants
for non-vowel Arabic. Do they match VM?
Don
>
> I wrote:
>
>   > the "Towneley Plays" ... was it here that I got the hint?
>
> It was here indeed, from Knox's site
>
>   http://home.earthlink.net/~knoxmix/id7.html
>
> As Knox notes, the word length distribution (WLD) of the TPs is very
> "binomial-like". (But still not as symmetric as the Voynichese WLD,
> though.) I presume that it is due to most words in the TPs being
> monosyllabes.
>
> Both are very different from the WLDs of "literary" texts in many
> languages. Here are some preliminary plots which you may find
> interesting. Sorry for the lack of explanations, I am working on them.
>
>   Voynichese, Latin, Portuguese, German, Russian:
>   http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-1-euro.png
>
>   Voynichese, GordonRuggish (software), GordonRuggish (manual)
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-1-rugg.png
>
>   Voynichese: Text, Labels, Both
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-1.png
>
>   Voynichese, WarOfTheWorlds, CulpeperHerbal, TowneleyPlays
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-2.png
>
>   Voynichese in OKO-code, Vietnamese, WarOfTheWorlds, TowneleyPlays, Latin
>   http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-1-qoko.png
>
>   Voynichese, Arabic(-V), Arabic(+V), Hebrew(+V), Hebrew(-V), Geez(+V)
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-1-smit.png
>
>   Voynichese, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Geez(+V), Arabic(-V)
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-3.png
>
>   Voynichese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, ChineseNews, ChineseNovel
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-4.png
>
>   Voynichese, CnineseBible (two versions), ChineseNews (two versions),
> ChineseNovel
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-5.png
>
>   Voynichese, Tibetan (two old buddhist texts), Tibetan (modern budhist
> text)
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-6.png
>
>   Voynichese, English (Roman-numbered codebook), Chinese (fancy-number
> codebbok)
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-8.png
>
>   Voynichese, Chinese (compact phonetic script), Tibetan, Vietnamese
>   http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/misc/wlds/langs-w-lengths-9.png
>
> Note the close match with the vowelless Arabic text (the Holy Quran),
> it was quite a surprise. Who has got the Arabic pizza ticket? 8-)
>
> All the best,
>
> --stolfi
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