Ruby's Greek Thread

[Ruby Novacna]

Simple substitutions preserve most of the statistical features of the source language, for instance character conditional entropy, the binomial distribution of word lengths, consecutive repetition of words. The source language must therefore match the values of these properties observed in the VMS. European languages don't match these properties and are therefore ruled out for a simple substitution.

I found some Wikipedia articles about word repetition.
"Polyptoton is the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated (such as "strong" and "strength").
A related stylistic device is antanaclasis, in which the same word is repeated, but each time with a different sense.
Another related term is figura etymologica in which words with the same etymological derivation are used in the same passage."

Certainly, knowing that repetition has its place in European languages is not enough to be able to explain the repetitions of the text of the VM, it would first be necessary to be able to translate them.