Re: AW: Voynichese = Old/unknown/extinct kind of Chinese dialect

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Sep 2000, at 15:49, Anders, Claus wrote:

> Jacques Guy wrote:
>  > It would be too good to be true. Chinese de is (roughly) a
> > possessive,
>  > like English 's. But daiin often occurs reduplicated, impossible in
> > Chinese, at least the Chinese(s) I know. It just could be, but in
> that > case,  dy would be a better candidate. However... it all  comes
> > back to me now... deng is a sort of plural marker, really more >
> like Japanese  nado ("etc.", "and similar things"). If anything, > dy
> is de and daiin is deng.

>  [Anders, Claus]  Yes, you're completely right for modern Chinese (and
> Japanese too). 

I don't think that you can include Japanese. "Ware ware", "soro 
soro", "peko peko" and *many* other words are just duplications. 

Cheers,

Gabriel