Sequential word repetitions in the VMS

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Is not the repetition issue too exaggerated?

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.

I remember a while ago stumbling across a translation of an Egyptian religious text and it was incredibly repetitious.

In general, religious texts do seem to be more redundant (i'm sure there is a reason for this) e.g.:

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”

It's hard to quantify, but in some sections the Voynich appears to exceed even that.

Some of the redundancy is simply a result of Stolfi's crust-mantle-core structure - lots of common word prefixes/suffixes.

I have a plot which highlights words according to the amount of information bits they carry (given by log_2 of the word's respective probability):
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The yellow areas contain the least amount of information - i would say that's where the VM's reputation for repetitiousness comes from.