The Voynich manuscript
The reading and listening materials have a conflict of opinions about the origin of the Voynich manuscript. The reading passage explains three theories about this subject. On the other hand, the professor disagrees with these theories that mentioned in the passage.
First of all, in the reading, the author indicates that this book is a wonderful work on the scientific magical subject like Anthony Ascham books. By contrast, the speaker in the lecture makes it clear that it is not possible that this manuscript belonged to him. Because he did not use the codes for his herbal discussion.
Second, according to the writer, it is said that this manuscript is a fake and does not have real meaning. Although in the 16 century, some people made fake things to sell them to rich people. On the contrary, the professor holds an opposite view. He believes that the ancient people were easy foolish and it does not need any complex works like this manuscript so that people who sold fake things did not need hard try to make this complex manuscript.
As a final point, the writer refers in the passage that this manuscript could create by Wilfrid M. Voynich who acquired this handwritten book and he wanted to attract people to buy it. By contrast, the speaker in the lecture views this issue from a different angle. He believes that the pages of this manuscript are very old and it is not possible for him to make a fake manuscript.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, so, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1190.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46422076933 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 355.5 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.4048452607 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8571428571 21.698381199 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07142857143 7.06452816374 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261405685674 0.272083759551 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0868411525249 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101480790041 0.0662205650399 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160439323968 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0703468142966 0.0443174109184 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 13.3589403974 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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