How the Voynich Manuscript was created — mentioned by hyper_reality

Mon, 20 May 2019 17:01:10 GMT

Of all the Voynich theories, I find those suggesting it was produced through a mechanistic method to be most persuasive. Several statistical properties of the words just don't match up with any natural languages, and there is a large amount of repetition of individual words with small variations, but hardly any repeated phrases. One recent idea is that successive words were copied from early ones, with small rearrangements of the glyphs https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.6639.pdf . As such, the text gains the characteristic of looking like a language, when in fact it is meaningless gibberish.…

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How the Voynich Manuscript was created — mentioned by hyper_reality