19-08-2015, 06:38 PM
We could have something similar in English if we consider such terms as "that that" or "so so" or (highly artificial but grammatical correct) constructions such as
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
Or the old favourite
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
But let us put aside the latter examples of lexical ambiguity and concentrate on the question
The Voynich Reader program has a function to extract sequential repeated words. I get 318 repeated (2 or more sequential) words in the Takeshi transcription using this program. I did have a file somewhere listing them all but I can't find it right now, but I attach a.csv file generated from the Voynich Reader program in case you don't have it installed.
[Actually I won't because the forum won't allow me to upload a file with a txt, csv or doc extension so I'm stymied. Let me know if you want it and I'll email it, or if someone can change the settings?]
On another tack, repeated words in manuscript copying are very common, it's known as dittography, the error caused by eyeslip when a scribe's eyes skipped backwards or forwards in the original text and repeated the previous block of text without realising it.
That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.
Or the old favourite
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
But let us put aside the latter examples of lexical ambiguity and concentrate on the question
The Voynich Reader program has a function to extract sequential repeated words. I get 318 repeated (2 or more sequential) words in the Takeshi transcription using this program. I did have a file somewhere listing them all but I can't find it right now, but I attach a.csv file generated from the Voynich Reader program in case you don't have it installed.
[Actually I won't because the forum won't allow me to upload a file with a txt, csv or doc extension so I'm stymied. Let me know if you want it and I'll email it, or if someone can change the settings?]
On another tack, repeated words in manuscript copying are very common, it's known as dittography, the error caused by eyeslip when a scribe's eyes skipped backwards or forwards in the original text and repeated the previous block of text without realising it.