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RE: A possible way to break down Voynich text - ThomasCoon - 23-12-2016
(22-12-2016, 06:42 AM)stellar wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ Coon
I hope not to be ignorant here.
I have a few questions. Have you stopped this theory or are you still working on it? Since you found 26 combinations and you explain them to be letters, would this indicate English instead of Latin? If you use combinations does this lower the word entropy? You say the spaces are fake and do you still believe that?
You must have worked on this quite some time so Great Job if that means anything?
Why are some glyph s equaled as the same glyph when they are different and how do you figure that?
Hi Stellar - thank you for the questions. I haven't stopped working on this (and should do more work on it), but the school year is in full-swing and time is in short supply!
Regarding English or Latin: When I started working on the VMS, I made a conscious decision NOT to guess what the underlying language was. To assume a language didn't seem the right place to begin, because that assumption could color all my observations. Instead it's better to work on the code, and the underlying language would eventually become clear. Earlier I said there were 26 "units", now I'm not sure. My views have changed a little - the patterns I talk about here may only be one component in a larger encryption scheme.
The word entropy would be lower using these combinations, yes.
I still suspect that some spaces are contrived / at least not meaningful.
Thank you for the "Great Job" - I admire your diligence and hard work also.
Regarding why some glyphs equaled others: some 2-letter combinations often appeared in the same places as each other, so I wondered if they might have the same meaning. I'm not so sure anymore - that is still something to investigate. As JKP and I have discussed before, when you try to break up a string of Voynichese into units, the whole thing quickly becomes a bowl of alphabet soup. The code is very hard to grasp; the writer must have been very intelligent.
RE: A possible way to break down Voynich text - A.Wilmarth - 03-08-2024