[Interview] An interview with Stephen Bax

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I don't know why there is an idea that Bax's method is similar to Ventris's. It isn't. Ventris (and Kober) constructed a series of interlocking sound values for multiple characters before guessing a single word. It was this table of sounds values which allowed the solution to be both a) self-propagating by suggesting more sound values, and b) self-checking by rejecting forced sound values. Once Ventris had made a handful of correct guesses, the rest was history.

Also, Bax's solution isn't that much like Champollion's, before anybody suggests that.

It was Bax who implied his method is similar to Ventris's, which unfortunately side-stepped honest and sincere questions about his own method that people would be interested in hearing about, but I'm glad to see you expanding on Ventris's method for those who aren't familiar with it.