19-05-2017, 09:16 PM
This appears to be true, when we look at the EVA transcription.
But I would argue the reality is different. If we look at the original text, we see much more detail than in the transcription:
![[Image: image.jpg?q=f1r-265-187-1041-303]](https://voynich.ninja/extractor/image.jpg?q=f1r-265-187-1041-303)
We fixate upon what we can see and recognise, and EVA helps us to do this by creating obvious patterns.
Let us look at a real world example with a similar effect (left hand column):
![[Image: Joan_Perez_de_Lazarraga_1564_67.jpg]](http://www.esacademic.com/pictures/eswiki/74/Joan_Perez_de_Lazarraga_1564_67.jpg)
We can see similar words repeating themselves. (That's 16th century Basque -Euskera- by the way, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). We can pick out similar fragments that are seem to be repeated, because we don't understand the context. But the text obviously has meaning. Although this example does not show the regularity of Voynichese.
I'm not arguing against your theory - in fact, I find it very plausible - but I'm trying to think of a context to put it in to "prove" it, rather than leaving it as an impression on the part of the reader.
So how can we prove your theory? Well, I have in the past written upon the evolving epizeuxis phenomenon, which is what I called these sequences when a Timm's pair starts to be repeated across a sentence. I think there's a rich field to be examined there.
But I would argue the reality is different. If we look at the original text, we see much more detail than in the transcription:
We fixate upon what we can see and recognise, and EVA helps us to do this by creating obvious patterns.
Let us look at a real world example with a similar effect (left hand column):
We can see similar words repeating themselves. (That's 16th century Basque -Euskera- by the way, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). We can pick out similar fragments that are seem to be repeated, because we don't understand the context. But the text obviously has meaning. Although this example does not show the regularity of Voynichese.
I'm not arguing against your theory - in fact, I find it very plausible - but I'm trying to think of a context to put it in to "prove" it, rather than leaving it as an impression on the part of the reader.
So how can we prove your theory? Well, I have in the past written upon the evolving epizeuxis phenomenon, which is what I called these sequences when a Timm's pair starts to be repeated across a sentence. I think there's a rich field to be examined there.