Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Ahmet Ardıç]

Ahmet Ardıç wrote:
"In Turkish double, triple, quadruple, and quintile repetitions of the same word (for different purpose and/or functions) are also seen (as same as in VMS). Can you please say us that same thing is found in any other European language?"

This is probably not quite what you meant, but yes, repetition like that can occur in English :
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Hi RobGea,

Thank you for this comment. Word repeats are of course can seen in many languages. Maybe it's in all languages around the world.

However, comparing any two language with their frequency and diversity of word repetitions among in texts, the difference should be scientifically viewed. In VMS, there are many repetitions on many pages and some pages have many repetitions within the same page. Please you gave me a same example in English. Please show us the similar example in any old manuscript in English. Structurally, in terms of the repeating words frequency in the text and their quantitative diversity, there is no any European language that can compete with the old and/or current Turkish.

If you want, you can create repeating words in any language. But this is not the important thing. We are comparing old languages. The important thing is to present the facts that can be compared scientifically. There are no examples similar to Turkish in terms of language.

Did you see any similar situation (same as in VMS) for this issue to compare? Is there any other text seen in any European language in from same time period? Or compare this issue with English and German (or Italian) texts of any time period. 

There are many duplicate and multiple word repeats in Turkish. That kind of the repetition was written to make the plural of a word in Old Turkish. 

In Turkish and Old-Turkish, triple, quadruple, and quintile repetitions of the same word (for different purpose and/or functions) are also seen. 

So, you can use that kind of word repetition to make any word plural in old Turkish. Which of the old European languages has such a characteristic seen? If you only think about this particular issue of diversity and frequency in this respect, you would not even want to compare with English. No way.

Best regards,

Ahmet Ardıç
ATA Team Alberta