29-09-2025, 03:25 PM
Going against the 'null hypothesis' here that the repetitive patterns are present in the plaintext, there's therere 8possi9 bilityty that repe ti ti on is a deliberate addition. The 'qokeedy' example you quote is one of the most egregious one, but this "echo" phenomenon is apparent in the majority of the VMS text.
IIRC MarcoP once showed that not only does the echo pattern break down when scrambling the words, but it broke down even worse than in several other NL corpora.
You can take this as evidence that, unless we're dealing with a conlang or a different language family altogether, there can't be a 1:1 correspondence between a running line of Voynichese words and coherent plaintext.
IIRC MarcoP once showed that not only does the echo pattern break down when scrambling the words, but it broke down even worse than in several other NL corpora.
You can take this as evidence that, unless we're dealing with a conlang or a different language family altogether, there can't be a 1:1 correspondence between a running line of Voynichese words and coherent plaintext.