Re: VMs: Odd Thoughts

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Rafal wrote:
> > I remember a sentence from an exercise polishing
> > one's grasp of conditionals:
> > If the sentence that had "had had" had had "had",
> 
> I like it. It can be expanded recursively ...


Well, it's quite possible and surely it's fun.
But for a XVth century 100+ pages manuscript I propose some 
other explanations too, like:

accentuation via recitation
(like: 
"...VMS is really, really, really strange..." -
often used in volksongs, proverbs etc)

voices of nature
(like:
Chasm is diz-dizzy dy-dy-dy
Stones are fal-falling dar-dar-dar
Me, I prattle bar-bar-bar

to make it more strange
(especially, if it's a late XIX century/early XX century artpiece)

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