04-02-2018, 08:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2018, 08:54 PM by Diane.
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Thanks Koen,
After the interview finished, the YouTube went straight to your interview with Stephen Bax, which I hadn't heard before.
Well done to you and David.
If I may add one slightly negative comment - it seems to me that the general hope of (a) attracting more specialists in particular areas of the study and (b) the hope of setting 'tests' and/or (as David suggested) requiring everyone to have a go at everything are mutually exclusive.
I'm not going to move beyond my own speciality; nor would Touwaide, I'm sure, want to bother with Voynichese statistics and arguments about whether the text is, or isn't in cipher. No-one presently involved (except perhaps Pelling) has anything like the level of knowledge needed to 'set a test' for a professional palaeographer. And neither can I think of anyone sufficiently qualified to 'set a test' for Emma, or - to be frank - for me.
I think all that could happen with 'tests' is that any wrong-headed idea which enough people believe will become set in stone; and demands to step outside their area of expertise will deter academics and specialists.
But that glimpse of the void was a minor thing compared with the real pleasure of hearing both men speak at length. Great service for the study in the wider online community too. Well done, both of you.
After the interview finished, the YouTube went straight to your interview with Stephen Bax, which I hadn't heard before.
Well done to you and David.
If I may add one slightly negative comment - it seems to me that the general hope of (a) attracting more specialists in particular areas of the study and (b) the hope of setting 'tests' and/or (as David suggested) requiring everyone to have a go at everything are mutually exclusive.
I'm not going to move beyond my own speciality; nor would Touwaide, I'm sure, want to bother with Voynichese statistics and arguments about whether the text is, or isn't in cipher. No-one presently involved (except perhaps Pelling) has anything like the level of knowledge needed to 'set a test' for a professional palaeographer. And neither can I think of anyone sufficiently qualified to 'set a test' for Emma, or - to be frank - for me.
I think all that could happen with 'tests' is that any wrong-headed idea which enough people believe will become set in stone; and demands to step outside their area of expertise will deter academics and specialists.
But that glimpse of the void was a minor thing compared with the real pleasure of hearing both men speak at length. Great service for the study in the wider online community too. Well done, both of you.