Anton > 15-08-2015, 11:19 PM
daiin daiin daiin
david > 19-08-2015, 06:38 PM
Anton > 19-08-2015, 11:15 PM
david > 20-08-2015, 08:28 AM
Quote:Is that too many as compared with natural languages?I have no idea. But those four words you quoted are some of the most famous Voynich words out there.
Quote:Is not the repetition issue too exaggerated?
Anton > 20-08-2015, 12:40 PM
Quote:I think the issue is not direct repetition, but rather many similar words repeated, as in Timms pairs and [ah-hem] Jackson sequences, which are not features of written languages.
voynichbombe > 09-01-2016, 03:11 PM
david > 10-01-2016, 09:09 AM
Quote:“I have seen a complete crucifix in an agate-stone [..] in tufa rock I have seen a whole alphabet whose letters were formed of the veins in the stone [..] I once caught a butterfly on whose wings nature had accurately imprinted the face of our Saviour”.This was the difference in language that the early moderns had. They considered their day to day languages to be inferior human made constructs that were only temporary; God had a secret universal communication that he had hidden from us until we were wise enough to use anew, and they hoped to be able to discover it. It was the doctrine of signatures written into linguistic communication. The idea of deconstructing their vernacular and rebuilding it into an artificial language – such as Esperanto, for example – would have to wait until the 18th and 19th centuries.
voynichbombe > 10-01-2016, 03:32 PM
-JKP- > 12-01-2016, 12:26 AM
Emma May Smith > 12-01-2016, 01:01 AM