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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Often a bizarre feature of Voynichese turns out to occur in other languages as well.  Did you ever notice that the sequence "if it is" occurs rather often in English?  In one of my English samples I find "if it is as".  That near-repetition is not noticed there, because the reader sees the meaning of the words rather than the words themselves.  But in the VMS we don't have the meanings, only the words...

Other things that may cause such near-repetitions:

  The VMS manuscript has no punctuation.  Consider:

     "I would rather do that, than this thing. This thing that they want..." 
     "i would rather do that than this thing this thing that they want..."

   There may be formulas that are inherently repetitive:

     "called cauliflower, coliflower, calliflower, or kaleflower"

   There may be incantations or charms:

      "sanctus sanctus sanctissimus et sanctorum omnia..."

   They may be numerals

      "videt partes xii xiv xv xvii xviii"
     
    They may be items in an enumeration of similar things:

      "the demons are azrael, alzazel, alzuel, alarazel..."

And then the language may have many similar words, and the applicable literary standard may consider alliteration a feature, not a defect:

    "Veni vidi vici"

    "Ō tite, tūte, tatī, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulistī!

    "A feir feld full of folk fond I þer bitwene"

    "Dreaming dreams no one dared to dream before.” 

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So it would be prudent to first define mathematically what would constitute a "repetitious phrase", and then test whether such a pattern also occurs in other comparable texts, such as "alchemical herbals" and medical treatises of the early 1400s.  

And bear in mind that a negative result would show only that the VMS is not like those specific examples. It would not say anything about the language or encoding...