30-05-2017, 05:32 AM
(29-05-2017, 09:28 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is what Cryptologists say about the Voynich manuscript:
"Languages simply do not behave in this way." [...]
Sorry Torsten, but that is not right.
One cannot take the words of Friedman, Tiltman, et al. and interpret them as saying something that they did not mean.
The essence of what each of them was saying is that a reasonably simple cipher is not going to work in decrypting the Voynich MS, for the various reasons that they presented: it will not result in a text with language-like behaviour.
Friedman settled on the possibility that it was some constructed language, so his opinion is definitely language.
Tiltman declared that he considered some more complicated form of a cipher, not that it's meaningless.
Their conclusions further justify the words in the video.
The better known argument in favour of meaningful contents is the Montemurro and Zanette paper, as I already mentioned before, which made the press some years ago.
Note that I don't agree with their conclusions. That is: I don't think that the conclusion is justified by the analysis.