Re: VMs: Operators

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> --- Larry Roux <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>

[In reply to:]
> 4) the words appear strange.  some "sentences" are
> something like "abcd abed abcde abce"

> This is indeed one of the main peculiarities of
> the Voynich MS.

This makes me wonder if the underlying text might be being presented at a
slow rate (say, one letter per "word"), with the writer fleshing it out
with arbitrary text. (Something along the lines of "Shirley Shirley
bo-Burley banan-bana fo Furley" etc. without the rigid pattern of nulls).

The repetitiveness could be the result of the writer's inability to invent
different nonsense syllables as fast as he is writing, like the problem
someone has trying to pretend to speak in tongues or to mimic the sound of
a language he doesn't really know. (I think it's called "buffer
underrun").

Bruce Grant



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