(21-01-2020, 11:01 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It may not belong here, but it was also seen in Terra X.
The le Buse cryptogram.
It is probably the oldest known document of the cryptogram.
But even here Nick has already pulled out all the stops.
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Here the old original:
Sadly, that was just a modern mockup. Nobody knows what happened to the original cryptogram (though chances are it's sitting forgotten in a box in a Mauritian drawer).
There was also a second variant of the cryptogram which some enterprising soul had fabricated (probably in the 1930s). They embellished the original with some romantic-looking pirate drawings and some extra lines of ciphertext (more or less entirely taken from Poe). But that's a story for another day. :-)
(20-01-2020, 11:35 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have had the fortune (I thought) of being asked by the media to talk about the Voynich MS on multiple occasions. For the first 4-5 times this was exciting, but after that I began to realise that they would make anything of what had been recorded. They would just cut out very small things out of context.
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My respect for programme makers has changed for the worse. Their aims are not what we regular people think they are.
I think it's a good decision to be careful with appearances TV interviews. This Terra X show is really, really, really big bullshit. I don't understand how they can screw up a subject that is on its own exciting enough like the VMs is.
In contrast, I‘ve made very good experiences with interviews for podcasts and with radio stations (we both contributes quotes for a DLF Nova Show in 2017). Within my last interview they let me talk for two hours and published an more or less uncut version
Been saying this about the phonetic writing for 2 years. Open, closed, short or elongated letters/glyphs play a part in the sounds made. Hebrew, as an example, had no vowel markers for many, many years.