SciAm: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

[Jim Dixon]

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.

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