Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

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I've been trying to figure out how many liberties they are taking when going from the transliteration to the translation, but there isn't enough information in the video to really determine this, other than the statement about 60+ combination letters, and the example of the bench char for which he gave several interpretations.

The little bit I was able to glean from the video was this...


Their interpretation of the rotum on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is that it is divided into 12 segments that represent months.

Using November as an example...

The text in Voynichese is dalar y


Based on the transliteration charts in the video this becomes: seper u


Which they then turn into seper ayi or sefer ayi (there was no explanation as to how "u" becomes "ayi" and apparently they are providing leeway for "p" to become "f").

I was not able to find seper/saper/separ/sapar in the Turkish dictionaries (either modern or old), but I did find the following:

• sefer = voyage/journey/expedition
  
• safar/safer = second month of the lunar calendar (note that the word position was identified as November but one has to keep in mind that lunar months change each year and do not correspond directly and are not divided the same as solar calendars).
  

So, there were several subjective changes in the transliteration process to turn a non-phrase (seper u) into a phrase that fits the context somewhat (safer ayi - second lunar month month - I wrote month twice because "ayi" appears to me to be redundant).


To recap:  seper u --> safer ayi --> second-lunar-month month


Note that dalar occurs on a number of pages by itself and as portions of other tokens, including a rota that is divided into 4/8 segments, and one that is divided into 9.


I don't know if this example is more or less representative of how they are translating the rest of the manuscript, but it appears that subjective interpretation of glyphs and the letters associated with those glyphs does occur.