The Voynich Manuscript (Partially Solved)

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[Verse 1]
In fifteen hundred, strange pages appeared
Two hundred forty leaves, bizarre and weird
Unknown symbols dance across each line
Plants and figures in cryptic design
For centuries scholars scratched their heads
Trying to unlock what the manuscript said

[Chorus]
Entropy shows it's not just noise
Language patterns have a voice
N-grams tell us it's not fake
Real words that human minds can make
The Voynich mystery partly solved
Algorithms got involved

[Verse 2]
Entropy analysis measures the flow
Information density, high and low
Natural language has certain traits
Random gibberish just can't create
The patterns match what humans write
Not cipher codes or hoaxer's sleight

[Chorus]
Entropy shows it's not just noise
Language patterns have a voice
N-grams tell us it's not fake
Real words that human minds can make
The Voynich mystery partly solved
Algorithms got involved

[Verse 3]
N-gram statistics check the structure
Two and three letter word clusters
Simple substitution would break the chain
But Voynich keeps the language brain
Word beginnings, middles, ends
Follow rules that language sends

[Bridge]
Language modeling AI suggests
Proto-Romance, Columbus's quests
Central American plants they found
Botanical clues within each mound
Not a hoax and not a code
Real language down a different road

[Chorus]
Entropy shows it's not just noise
Language patterns have a voice
N-grams tell us it's not fake
Real words that human minds can make
The Voynich mystery partly solved
Algorithms got involved

[Outro]
Still we wonder what it says
But algorithms cleared the haze
Ruled out theories one by one
The Voynich quest is not yet done

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