Re: Oh no, someone else has been at the Voynich manuscript ... but wait ...

Pure speculation.  The 199th guy comes forward and  claims he has "broken"
the Voynich code.  Yet he hasnt translated a single sentence.  And it's
based on a 1000 year old language that somehow he alone knows.  It's his
obligation to prove it and he hasnt proven zip.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:17 PM Ralph Hancock <[email protected]>
wrote:

> One last point about the manuscript before the topic expires (or maybe it
> has already). Suppose that I am a forger in the late Middle Ages, and I am
> trying to produce something that I can sell at a fat price to a nobleman
> who dabbles in alchemy. I dress up the MS with attractive pictures of
> bathing nymphs and mysterious magical plants. But what do I do about the
> text?
>
> I invent a script which genuinely corresponds to the roman alphabet but is
> extremely hard to read. Then I use this to write brief captions to some of
> the pictures which I can show my victim, and convince him that they say
> something in a Latinesque language that he can more or less understand.
> That is enough for a sale; the main body of the text can confidently be
> written in gibberish because the buyer will not have the patience to try to
> decode it.
>
> RH
>