27-04-2020, 12:35 PM
Great work, Marco. This seems pretty conclusive - we probably won't find a parallel for Voynichese in your average text.
There are recurring indications that our best bet is to look at poetry/hymns/incantations, but we have not yet found a text with this high degree of reduplication maintained over tens of thousands of words.
As you say, we are looking for an extreme form of poetic and/or linguistic resonance. Used in an entire manuscript, apparently about various subjects.
The only alternatives are the various scenarios where Voynichese words are not words. Meaningless text, or syllables, or some cypher that generates redundancy.
So I wonder, have we reached the limits of comparing plain texts to EVA transcriptions?
There are recurring indications that our best bet is to look at poetry/hymns/incantations, but we have not yet found a text with this high degree of reduplication maintained over tens of thousands of words.
As you say, we are looking for an extreme form of poetic and/or linguistic resonance. Used in an entire manuscript, apparently about various subjects.
The only alternatives are the various scenarios where Voynichese words are not words. Meaningless text, or syllables, or some cypher that generates redundancy.
So I wonder, have we reached the limits of comparing plain texts to EVA transcriptions?
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