29 Jun
2004
29 Jun
'04
1:06 p.m.
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
characters of Voynichese into Roman letters. An example from folio 78R of the manuscript reads: qokedy qokedy dal qokedy qokedy. This degree of repetition is not found in any known language.
Arabic (my transliteration of what I was taught, may actually be Dari): "lah ilahah ilahlah muhammed ur rasul allah" (There is but one God and Muhammaed is his prophet.) English, Gertrude Stein: "a rose is a rose is a rose". 7,320 hits on Google, some with more roses. -- Jim Dixon jdd@dixons.org tel +44 117 982 0786 mobile +44 797 373 7881 http://jxcl.sourceforge.net Java unit test coverage http://xlattice.sourceforge.net p2p communications infrastructure