The Voynich Ninja

Garry Shaw: "The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece" (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)

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A recent experiment in which volunteers were asked to write pages of gibberish produced texts with similar characteristics to the Voynich Manuscript. The volunteers tended to intersperse a string of long words with a string of short words, chose short words beside illustrations according to the available space, and, in headings, used variations of the title words in the text below. Significantly, the volunteers invented gibberish using a process called self-citation, in which new words largely adapt those written earlier. Scholars have previously proposed this as the method used by Voynich scribes. Is the Voynich Manuscript therefore… meaningless?

If you dip a thimble in the ocean and inspect the contents the logical conclusion is that the ocean is void of life.

The topic has already been discussed in detail in several other threads. In my opinion, the fact that this hypothesis is now mentioned again in Garry Shaw's list does not open up a new approach to the discussion.

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