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VMs: Pointing at spaces



[changing subject from Clairol and snipping]

Jacques Guy wrote:
24/02/2005 6:51:10 PM,

Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It has occurred to me to wonder if the Voynich script was deliberately
designed to yield characters reminiscent of Latinate characters and
Latinate abbreviatory symbols, but arising in different ways


Yes but, Sukhotin's algorithm identifies <a>, <o> and <e> as
vowels (and also <ee>) and those look those same vowels written
in the Medieval Beneventan and Wisigothic scripts (the two are
very close). And further, a non-vowel is EVA <ch>, Frogguy <ct>
which is the spitting image of "t" in Beneventan. So...? I don't
know.


the idea
being to mislead an uninitiated decypherer into false hypotheses - as if
the decypherer were instinctively led into attacking "in tofal sehypot
heses."


That is why I don't believe that the spaces should be taken as
significant. We have to demonstrate that they are significant before we can consider them as such.



It might be easier to demonstrate spaces are insignificant by recovering the insertion rules and showing that they are not language-like. Simple rules will leave long strings of letters or very short words or both. The writer could have inserted spaces at will or spaces could have been determined by regular deviation from the positions of original spaces. Or by stroke direction (?). Would any of those methods produce Stolfi's binomial vocabulary-wordlength distribution? If not, what would?


Regards, ......... Knox









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