[split] An interview with Stephen Bax - 1 to 1 substitution discussion

[Davidsch]

JKP
Regarding the 1 to 1 substitution discussion, when I started 3 years back I wanted to make sure that it wasn't a 1-1.
The only way to show that scientifically is compare it with all language groups known in Europe. It took me 2 years but that's finished.
All possible phonetically, text alterations, backwards, shuffled, no vowels, no doubles, partial substitutes, abbreviations etc. has been covered by my research.

Although, if you insist and want to study & compare phonetic transliterations, it is a good idea to start with the alphabet in that language. Then study some on the grammar and the inflections, and then research and study the pronunciations in medieval times, invent your own way in transcribing that consistently, write some software for comparing that, and finally start with comparing your results with the Voynich text.

It is not important how I worked but there's just no match, so I don't bother to lay down my specifications and results, the methods etc in a paper or a-like, because I'm not academical in this area and really,  in the end we only care about the results. This year I studied basically (medieval) ciphers and mystical (wrongly valued) science.  Now I believe the Voynich text is a cipher.  There are some things on the text that point at that direction, but I see no motivation for spending time in defending or discussing my own research results here, until convinced otherwise.  It is very possible that finally the text is a mix of code+cipher+substitution of abbreviation, such as is usual around the time 1400-1600.

(writing this small posting took me 35 minutes)