06-02-2017, 11:32 AM
Koen Gh,
I am not the first person to see a problem here, and while I agree that labelese appears different from the rest of Voynich text, this doesn't solve anything at all in my view.
If labelese is simple substitution thing then we should be able to read all of the labels easily based on the sounds Stephen Bax has identified, right? Yet that doesn't work either.
But I guess I am getting off topic as this was not a thread for discussing issues with Stephen Bax's translations, and also, as ReneZ mentions, he is not the only or first one to have held the belief that doary is taurus. I just happen to be unconvinced by that identification, although I can recognize that it is a tempting one to make.
I am not the first person to see a problem here, and while I agree that labelese appears different from the rest of Voynich text, this doesn't solve anything at all in my view.
If labelese is simple substitution thing then we should be able to read all of the labels easily based on the sounds Stephen Bax has identified, right? Yet that doesn't work either.
But I guess I am getting off topic as this was not a thread for discussing issues with Stephen Bax's translations, and also, as ReneZ mentions, he is not the only or first one to have held the belief that doary is taurus. I just happen to be unconvinced by that identification, although I can recognize that it is a tempting one to make.