The Voynich Ninja

(19-06-2019, 07:41 AM)DONJCH Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Will there soon be a Voynich Wedding .... ?

I couldn't help it:



Sloppy, I know, but this really doesn't deserve more effort.

You guys are making me laugh so hard, I had to put down my cup so I wouldn't spill.

I suggest to focus more on discussing research results than on discussing personalities.

This thread already brings to my mind farcical portrayals of newspapers, something from Edgar Poe or Mark Twain.

Let's hope Gladyseva publishes her research so we will have something to discuss.

Mildly relevant: She appears under the name academija on spiegel.de:
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Her German is quite broken (maybe machine translated?), but essentially she again says Cheshire read her work and went from there.

Quote:You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 16.05.2019, 18:23
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"Jetzt behauptet der Forscher Gerard Cheshire von der Universität Bristol, das Rätsel in nur zwei Wochen gelöst zu haben ... Dies ist ein Vorläufer der heutigen romanischen Sprachen wie Portugiesisch, Spanisch, Französisch oder Italienisch."

2 Wochen! Es ist nicht zu befürchten, dass sein Forscher Gerard Cheshire vor einem Monat und einem Jahr behauptete, es sei in der protoromanischen Sprache der italienischen Sprache geschrieben worden. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

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Nachdem ich vor einem Monat meine Dissertation über das entzifferte Voynich-Manuskript gelesen hatte, in der ich sagte, es sei in spanischem Dialekt verfasst, was dem portugiesischen nahe kommt, ... und jetzt behauptet er, das Rätsel in nur zwei Wochen gelöst zu haben ". .. nachdem ich die Ergebnisse meiner Recherchen gelesen habe, trete ich seit 5 Jahren auf! Ich habe den GANZEN Text des Voynich-Manuskripts entziffert!
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She's been promoting the book for almost a year now and there's still no sign of it or even of a few pages (nothing more than advertising abstracts).

The VMS text at the top of the cover looks nothing like Voynichese, it looks like a substitution cipher (and I'm not terribly interested in figuring out if it's a "secret message" in Voynich characters), but I'll post it in case anyone is interested in looking at it:

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One can be curious when it's time to publish.

Definitely not Voynichese on the cover! Two gallows in a row just looks... wrong. Why not just use an image from the manuscript? Very odd.

Most of the letter combinations are wrong, as are the positions. It looks like a substitution cipher, that's why I thought there might be a message in it intended for readers.

I'm just so bummed about all the teaser abstracts that lead nowhere that I don't want to waste any time trying to work it out if it is a cipher (not Voynichese, obviously, but one of her invention). That might be a date (1454) near the end of the third line or it might just superficially look that way. Even random sequences, if there are enough of them, will include valid words.

She knows several languages, so it could be in any one of them (assuming it's a cipher and not just nonsense text).

Of course, everyone is free to decide to spend or waste time on what he/she prefers.

I recently got a link to a blog post that argues that looking at the Voynich MS is generally a waste of time. (It was also posted on Nick's blog):
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Now I am not so sure that a warning: "don't open this box because there is really nothing interesting inside" is going to have the desired effect