[Article] Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script

[Anton]

It's to much amusement to observe how Voynich news arrive to Russia with a lag of two-three days. After we have already discussed a new decoding on the forum, in two-three days I begin to be bombarded with messages from my friends who, knowing that I'm interested in the Voynich, nevertheless strangely assume that no news associated with it can ever reach me, so they very compassionately inform me of any new decodings reported in the Russian press.

Lenta.ru (kinda of online tabloid, very popular) today proudly proclaims (translation mine): "The beginning of the mysterious Voynich manuscript has been deciphered". Very funny, a nearby hyperlink to their article of September 2016 reads: "The mysterious Voynich manuscript turned to be a fake" (this refers to the recent paper of Gordon Rugg).

So one thing do the media firmly know - that the Voynich manuscript is "mysterious". Yes, not commonplace, by all means.