[Article] The Linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript (Bowern et al. 2020)

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I have checked some of the language samples collected from different wikipedia websites. The reason for the unusual high number of word repetitions are probably commonly used code snippets like "f f f border aaa solid font size" or "border style margin em em em". In the case of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there is even a sequence using the word "bar" 209 times in succession.

I wonder if Bowern and Lindemann were aware of this problem. At least they wrote: "However, it is not always possible to completely remove all English metadata from language written in the Latin script. This may have an effect on languages with very little text and short entries."