26-09-2025, 06:26 PM
(26-09-2025, 08:13 AM)quimqu wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The author should be aware not to repeat words excessively, since words repeated too closely can lead one to think the text is fake. I mean, imagine writing and inventing words at the same time; consciously or not, you’re not going to repeat the same word twice in a row.
The thing that stood out to me the most in 2025 dive into the ms was the wildness of some of the densely repeated sections. I'm stumped. I just don't have an idea. I feel that they should have been identified and not written onto the page, but if it is being copied, and in some cases copied by scribes who can't read the it...I just don't know. What would allow *you* to leave these in? I'd have to be certain that a smart person would not get to examine arbitrary pages. This creates a new constraint that the MS must never be examined by people with education and time. I'm not making an assumption that these repeats tell us that there is no meaning. Maybe it's a completely different encoding steganographic map. (Low information content, I think.)
Okay, maybe there's a good explanation for the repeated words and you can just give that to the smart person who notices them. That's not at all satisfying to me.
Before I was recognizing most of the common glyphs, the repetitions didn't stand out to me. I located them by reading the ZL transcription file with a program that I wrote. I wonder if there are other, undiscovered, oddities like the repeats, the line structure, Nick Pelling's Neal keys. and Gallows-coverage, etc. I can't think of a general way to discover such.