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Re: VMs: NEW SCIENTIST 11/2001 ZANDONELLA



jean-yves artero wrote:

Book of Riddles
New Scientist vol 172 issue 2317 - 17 November 2001, page 36
They show less variation in length than those of English, Latin and most other Indo-European languages and there are a lot of repeats—up to four consecutive repetitions of a word is common,

We keep hearing about this, but is it true? How common are four consecutive repetitions? Three repetitions I have seen, but how common is that, really?


Dennis

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