![]() ![]() ![]() The approach is based on three types of statistical measurements, i.e. In this study we propose a framework for determining whether a text (e.g., written in an unknown alphabet) is compatible with a natural language and to which language it could belong. While the use of statistical physics methods to analyze large corpora has been useful to unveil many patterns in texts, no comprehensive investigation has been performed on the interdependence between syntactic and semantic factors. Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript So, presumably you think these folk are wrong then. In an case, it's certainly an interesting subject of research, but I still think that the possibility of it being a work of pure fiction, maybe for the sole amusement of an eccentric rich patron, is a possibility. Maybe it is written in a cypher to obfuscate the fact that some of its content might be believed to be heretical (it contains a fair amount of naked women and appears to have some diagrams and illustrations that may relate to a theory of the origins of life or an animistic explanation of natural phenomena). Maybe the manuscript was written in Mexico. I'm sure you could match some of the simple ones to more than one plant and that still 85%+ that are unaccounted for.īeside, that doesn't detract from the fact that the author of the manuscript could still have found inspiration into existing plants, imagination doesn't preclude a basis in reality. That out of the 300+ plants described about 12% could match some existing ones doesn't really allow anyone to make definitive conclusion as to whether these plants could be real. ![]() I believe that these unconvincing attempts at finding meaning elsewhere -or degrading the object by calling it a hoax- are distracting us from the real beauty of this work of love and imagination. When I look at the Voynich Manuscript, all I see is the product of a fertile imagination that went a lot farther than my early teenage attempts at building a coherent world for myself. I even invented my own calendar, using the 88 day revolution of Mercury around the Sun as the year. I would write pages of nonsense in that writing system, just to see how it would flow or change over time, just to find patterns, just to have fun. It had a couple of different writing systems, one was a slightly modified version of Greek alphabet, another, more complex, was made of dots and small squiggles that were fast to write (I was fascinated with the Arabic writing system at the time and took inspiration from it even though it didn't look anything like that). I would make up words, sometimes based off various other languages, sometime simply based on how they sounded. When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing my own language. Why can't it be an expression of whimsical fantasy? I'm not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. ![]()
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