30-05-2017, 10:36 AM
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(30-05-2017, 10:09 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The 'lack of repeating sequences' has been named many times as evidence that there is not a meaningful text.
This is, for me, the most badly treated topic in all Voynich MS text analyses.
Critical numerical comparisons are not to be found. There was at least some of that here in this forum, and of course it is not easy.
In the Voynich MS repeated phrases didn't exist. The repeated sequences found mostly contain only two or three words, mostly at least two of this words are same or very similar and last but not least the words also occur in different word order (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. p. 3). For natural languages you would expect word classes which are normally used together. For instance you have used the word "The" in a special grammatical way since you have used it before a noun like in "The fact" or "The alternative". You have also used phrases like "at least", "some of that" and "many times". This is what D'Imperio means by "the strange lack for parallel context surrounding different occurrences of the same word" or Tiltmann with his statement "I am not aware of any long repetitions of more than 2 or 3 words in succession". Even if someone didn't know the writing system he would be able to analyze such repetitions. Grammar is one of the key features of any natural language. Therefore Tiltman and D'Imperio describe it as strange that repeated phrases or words used the same way in similar context are missing for the VMS.
Normally such repeated phrases are the first clue to understand the system behind a script. See for instance You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Here it was the repeated phrase "name A, great king, king of kings, son of name B, king of kings" that allowed the decipherment of that script.
Another example are my theses about the Phaistos disc (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Even for a text with only 61 words in an unknown language using an unknown script it is possible to identify a "sentence structure with three to five words" and to discuss what words stand for subject, verb and object. This rises the question why something possible for a text with only 61 words is not possible for a whole book with 37 000 words?