VMs: Testing Dr. Rugg's hoax theory

[Luis Velez <luis.velez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Scott,

I read your interesting paper on your three experimental approaches to 
verify/discard the Voynich's nature as a human language, and wondered 
if you would have an opinion on Dr. Gordon Rugg's position (his article 
in Scientific American, July 1994) that you would to like to contribute 
to the vms-list (the e-list studying the Voynich)?

Do you feel it would be possible for anyone using the Cardan Grill to 
purposefully come up with results that would match not only the 
Voynich's relatively consistent appearance, but also its particular 
profile regarding Zipf's law and Enthropy/Cross Enthropy levels? If so, 
what best method do you feel could be used to calculate and develop 
such product in writing, prior to the construction of the grills?

The difficulty in achieving this result appears to be the main argument 
against Dr. Rugg's theory of a probable hoax using grills, as 
previously pointed out by Landini, Stolfi, Zandbergen and others.

Many thanks in advance,


Luis Velez

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