[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

[Gabriel L]

Hello Antonio,
The issue (already mentioned in this thread) is that the trend needs to be considered over a large range of ranks and frequencies, not the first x words.
The Cryptologia article used 8213 word types. You are basing your conclusion on the 20 most frequent word types. That is only 0.002 of the available data.
I also invite you to check Zipf's book (The psychobiology of language, available though Google books). Of special interest is plate IV (English & Latin) which shows for Latin exactly the same effect that you now consider to be a reason to reject the rank frequency law.
Regards,

G