01-28-2018, 08:04 AM | #1 |
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Voynich Manuscript
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...-a8180951.html
Computer decryption has determined that the manuscript's base language is Hebrew, even if initial translations don't make sense. Steve |
01-28-2018, 09:58 AM | #2 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
Well, maybe. Let's see how much further they get.
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01-28-2018, 11:50 AM | #3 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
Now if this could be applied to the Codex Seraphinianus, I'd be happy.
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01-28-2018, 02:54 PM | #4 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
Incidentally, it is not difficult to view the Voynich Manuscript in person. Anyone can go to the Beinecke in New Haven and ask to see it, and the librarians will bring it out for you. There is no need to be a scholar or archivist, just curious.
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01-28-2018, 03:31 PM | #5 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
It's been "decoded" so often over the literal centuries that I'm not holding my breath about this one time being the absolute true answer.
Look how many times Mayan and Egyptian Hieroglyphics were deciphered before they really were. I almost expect the Phaistos disc to be read before the manuscript. And anyone using Google translate in a real research paper automatically triggers my skepticism.
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01-29-2018, 06:05 AM | #6 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript has been solved a long time ago.
https://xkcd.com/593/ /tongue in cheek. |
01-29-2018, 10:16 AM | #7 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
Wonder if they've allowed for "one language recorded in another" - so someone using Hebrew characters to record a language that isn't Hebrew rendered phonetically...
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01-29-2018, 12:27 PM | #8 |
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
You mean the way we can use western letters to transcribe Japanese kanji so that a western person can know how to pronounce the opening song of their favorite anime even if they don't speak Japanese so they can sing along the opening?
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01-30-2018, 01:26 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
That's precisely the sort of thing I was thinking of ... anyone identifying Roman characters and then trying to translate for a language of European origin would run into the buffers quite quickly...
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02-02-2018, 08:51 AM | #10 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Voynich Manuscript
That would seem to make it a substitution code ... which I understood were quite easy to crack once you know roughly what's encoded...
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