(09-05-2019, 01:25 AM)J.R Moore Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period in May 2017 after he came across the manuscript for the first time whilst conducting research for his PhD dissertation
2 weeks is all it took? Color me skeptical. What have we been doing for the last hundred years?
The problem is we've been lacking "ingenuity and lateral thinking".
(09-05-2019, 05:14 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The problem is we've been lacking "ingenuity and lateral thinking".
As the author now puts it:
"Thus, the solution was found by employing an innovative and independent technique of thought experiment."
We are also assured that:
"... the manuscript is remarkable after all, but in academic ways rather than sensationalistic and fantastical ways."
(09-05-2019, 06:20 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view...
As the author now puts it:
"Thus, the solution was found by employing an innovative and independent technique of thought experiment."
We are also assured that:
"... the manuscript is remarkable after all, but in academic ways rather than sensationalistic and fantastical ways."
He's in the wrong industry. He should be in advertising.
I come from a spanish forum to this forum to learn more about the solution, finally.
And I'm surprised. People here don't believe it. This is the solution. It was quite easy. Any native Spanish speaker now is able to read the months of the year under the zodiac signs. Yes, READ THEM, not interpret them.
The trick was the shape of the letters. Just that.
For example, the month of April, in Spanish is 'abril', and in the manuscript it is exactly written as that, it's more, it's written almost like I write it, hahaha, that "b" is identical to mine. I am able to read the rest of the months too, more or less, are quite similar to Spanish and Galician languages which are the two Romance languages I speak.
I'm very surprised that English speakers can't read them either, because the months in English come from Latin.
I am surprised and amused that in 2 weeks it has turned out, when in dozens of years no one has seen it before.
Please open your eyes and mind, don't be arrogant, just because the solution is easy doesn't mean it's wrong.
Best Regards.
That Spanish people - like everybody else - can read the month names has nothing to do with the validity of Cheshire's solution.
Hi Oxydo, welcome to the forum.
the month names are not the same as the rest of the text. Voynich researchers have always been able to read the month names.
If G. Cheshire claims he is the first to identify them, that is a flat out lie.
The rest of the text is in adifferent script, using a different system. And that is the part no one can read.
(15-05-2019, 03:30 PM)oxydo Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I come from a spanish forum to this forum to learn more about the solution, finally.
And I'm surprised. People here don't believe it. This is the solution. It was quite easy. Any native Spanish speaker now is able to read the months of the year under the zodiac signs. Yes, READ THEM, not interpret them.
The trick was the shape of the letters. Just that.
For example, the month of April, in Spanish is 'abril', and in the manuscript it is exactly written as that, it's more, it's written almost like I write it, hahaha, that "b" is identical to mine. I am able to read the rest of the months too, more or less, are quite similar to Spanish and Galician languages which are the two Romance languages I speak.
I'm very surprised that English speakers can't read them either, because the months in English come from Latin.
I am surprised and amused that in 2 weeks it has turned out, when in dozens of years no one has seen it before.
Please open your eyes and mind, don't be arrogant, just because the solution is easy doesn't mean it's wrong.
Best Regards.
As Koen and VViews pointed out, we have always been able to read the month names.
The month names have nothing to do with the rest of the text. They are normal medieval-Latin characters. They were probably added 10, 20, or maybe even 40 years later, based on the style of writing.
The person who added the month names was probably trying to solve the Voynich manuscript by labeling the zodiac figures. This is the only place where this handwriting occurs.
It is different from the handwriting on the main pages and the handwriting on folio 116v and the person who added the month names did not care if he/she wrote on top of the drawings. The original writer of Voynichese DID care and tried harder not to write on top of the drawings.
Phys.org and U of Bristol really seem to be leaning hard into these claims:
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Is Phys.org just a clearinghouse for unvetted press releases?
(Update: I answered my own question and just learned about the term "churnalism", LOL)
Now the Mirror has it. And the article implies the "solver" has bested Alan Turning with this achievement:
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Fox News also reporting:
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