[thih9]

(I know nothing about NLP)

Does it make sense to check the process with a control group?

E.g. if we ask a human to write something that resembles a language but isn’t, then conduct this process (remove suffixes, attempt grouping, etc), are we likely to get similar results?

[flir]

I suppose if you've got a hypothesis about how it was written (eg the Cardan grille method) you could generate some texts via that method and see if they display the same characteristics?

[awinter-py]

yes exactly, why did we not simply ask 100 people to write voynich manuscripts and then train on that dataset