[quote="Fontanellean" pid='80698' dateline='1772385136']
If Voynichese is a natural language, couldn't repeated words simply be that language's way of expressing intensification, i.e. "very?"
I hear you, but what's there on the pages looks more complicated to me. The smoking gun for me is the large number of "off by one" single glyph changes (replace/add/remove) that are found clustered in the same paragraph. One can come up with explanations but they seem too contrived to me. I can't explain what's there. I think that the single-glyph case is just one case. I think I see copying at the affix and syllable (or crust/mantle/core) level as well, but I can't imagine a human copying previous text that way. Using aesthetic instinct and eyeballs may have yielded what we see. I've not been working on a program for this (is this word a permutation?) because it's in search of proving a redundancy that is probably already revealed in statistical approaches.
If Voynichese is a natural language, couldn't repeated words simply be that language's way of expressing intensification, i.e. "very?"
I hear you, but what's there on the pages looks more complicated to me. The smoking gun for me is the large number of "off by one" single glyph changes (replace/add/remove) that are found clustered in the same paragraph. One can come up with explanations but they seem too contrived to me. I can't explain what's there. I think that the single-glyph case is just one case. I think I see copying at the affix and syllable (or crust/mantle/core) level as well, but I can't imagine a human copying previous text that way. Using aesthetic instinct and eyeballs may have yielded what we see. I've not been working on a program for this (is this word a permutation?) because it's in search of proving a redundancy that is probably already revealed in statistical approaches.