Proposed solution: The Voynich manuscript unzipped
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I grabbed three lines at random from PL's "Latin" translation.

Nonsense words (in any language) have a strikethrough, words from other languages are underlined. Genuine Latin words are in bold (notice that none are in bold):

umlio estoque este iloesesteum feretqueum esaesaus esaus ileumeses
esetarus estlietnus oilanrus eteum rusetum ferolioque lietquees esqueota
estoil etorus eteum esaus ileeum olioque esanus


You might be able to argue that "rusetum" is russet, but I saw no evidence that this word was used in the 15th century.

If you break up lietquees into three words, you might be able to argue that it's Spanish/Portuguese.

If you remove a letter, you might argue that ileeum could be ileum (intestinal viscera) but as it stands, it doesn't mean anything.


So, out of three lines of text, there's only one word that is arguably Latin (and it's rare and probably didn't exist in the 15th century), there are three words that are valid in other languages, one of which is Esaus, which could be taken for a Biblical name (Esau) but otherwise wouldn't mean anything. The other 18 words are nonsense words in any language.

(By the way, you can't depend on Google translate to specify the correct language for a word. It makes a best guess, based on the letter combinations as to what language it MIGHT be, but that doesn't mean the letters actually mean anything in that language. For example, if you put "-um" at the end of a word, it will often guess Latin even if it's not a Latin word. If you put "-os" at the end, it will often guess Greek, and so on.)
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RE: Proposed solution: The Voynich manuscript unzipped - by -JKP- - 11-08-2017, 05:09 PM

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