Re: VMs: Odd Thoughts

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

"Rafal T. Prinke" wrote:
> 
> Another area where repetitive minimal pairs might be sought
> are such expressions as "natura naturans", "natura naturata",
> "homo homini lupus", etc.
> 
> In rhetoric repetition was/is one of the most common figures,
> with lots of subtypes - see for example:
> 
> http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/of%20Repetition.htm

	This is an excellent page, Rafal.  Thanks!  I
especially like "homiologia - Tedious and inane
repetition. Unvaried style."  But seriously.  This is
the sort of thing we have been looking for!  

	There are all sorts of possibilities for repeated
words.  Rafal's "natura naturans", etc. are the only
precedent I've seen for the repeated strings that are
almost the same.  Maybe this is simply a stylistic
preference of the Voynich  authors?  

	I do wish to repeat an important question.  How common
are the exactly-repeated series of "words", and those
series in which "words" only vary a little.  Can
everyone give some statistics?  My impression is that
it isn't all that common in the VMs.  

Dennis
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