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• Ungrammatical repetition of the same few words

  punainerkarhu > 05-10-2026, 08:12 PM

  I thought of this after seeing a theory mentioned in one of Voynich Talk's videos that each glyph could be a word and if we try substituting them with some words in English or any other language we'll get same few words repeating again and again. 
  
  But what if the author/s of the manuscript generated the text by repeating the same words (throwing in a few more rare words here and there) over and over again with no grammar just substituting the letters/sounds in their native language with new glyphs they invented? Basically simple substitution just no real meaning behind the text. 
  
  Personally I don't think that's the case but could be worth considering as it might explain some properties of the manuscript, and I wanted to check if a similar idea was discussed before and whether someone tried mapping Voynich words to existing languages to see if some substitutions provide consistent results.

• RE: Ungrammatical repetition of the same few words

  Koen G > 7 hours ago

  I think I understand what you mean. So it would be like a nonsense generating method, but the scribes would have actual words from their language in mind while writing?
  
  The problem there is that to get something as restricted as Voynichese, those words would have to be selected and planned very carefully. And then they would also include minor variations of these words to get things like [dain, daiin] etc. 
  
  So if I understand correctly, what you're asking, it's basically whether the makers had real words in mind while they were generating the text. Within a hypothetical framework of a meaningless text, I think it's almost unavoidable that the writers attached some phonetic values to the words, kind of like we do with EVA. But this is impossible to prove, or even test, I think.
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