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[split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once
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(25-06-2020, 06:35 AM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are far more arguments (without claim of completeness):

In favor (somehow it looks like language):
                - it is structured
                - adherence to Zipf's law
                - context dependency

My question was whether the Voynich MS "words" represent complete words in some language, not whether the text is (or seems) meaningful.

As long as we have no idea how the text was composed, we cannot judge whether it is meaningful or not.
Statistics are real data, but the interpretation of these real data almost always involve significant assumptions, for example that the visible words in the MS are really words.

I just want to point out that we don't know this, even when it seems reasonable.
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RE: [split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once - by ReneZ - 25-06-2020, 03:27 PM
RE: General chat thread - by RobGea - 21-06-2020, 09:55 PM
RE: General chat thread - by bi3mw - 21-06-2020, 11:52 PM
RE: General chat thread - by Emma May Smith - 22-06-2020, 01:28 PM
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RE: General chat thread - by Stephen Carlson - 23-06-2020, 11:16 AM
RE: General chat thread - by bi3mw - 23-06-2020, 12:24 PM
RE: General chat thread - by Stephen Carlson - 23-06-2020, 01:12 PM

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