[Article] The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript (Bowern et al. 2020)
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(08-09-2020, 09:31 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Gibberish / random / mumbojumbo seem to be words which can be used to prove or disprove any given Voynich-related assertion, depending on how you (re)define them.

If you can't be bothered to define what you actually mean by such imprecise / multivalent words, then you really shouldn't be using them in the first place. :-(

It's a perennial problem when using language to talk about language.
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