[Blog Post] Repetition: Detabulated Text

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Several new posts at my Voynich blog, including these reflections on the repetitive nature of the text:

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Maybe "detabulated" astrological records could look like Voynichese but you don't explain how. You have an argument by proclamation that it can explain the peculiar patterns that we see in the VMs, without any explanation of the transformation.

Line patterns are not easy to match with "detabulated" data: the size of lines varies a lot, start and end of line have different statistics than the rest, and paragraphs end with a shorter line, usually.

The problem with equating similarity in data with similarity in Voynichese is that you would need to constrain the variability of the data a lot to have a match. Data from astrological records can be obviously cyclical, or extremely repetitive (some numbers repeating many times before they change) or too random to see any obvious similarity. There is no obvious reason to get local similarities of the type that we see in the VMs.

[chol] = spring, [chor] = dawn, [chom] = Aries [cheor] = cardinal Fire, [shol] = east.

You haven't explained the (unnecessary?) strong constraints in vord structure either, or their evolution, or... anything really.

I would be open to the idea if you could provide actual evidence.