(25-03-2018, 11:28 AM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.-JKP-
Yes, everything you say confirms what I've noticed, but I don't think I've paid much attention to anything said about the written part of the text and would like to remedy that.
Of those you mention, can you be more specific about any, or direct me to any of them?
Quote:.... Latin, Finnish, Welsh, English, Swedish, French, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Sanskrit-based languages, Kabbalah, and several others...
There have been MANY claims of Latin, probably because most of the glyphs are Latin and the position of the Latin abbreviations is consistent with their placement in the VMS.
No, sorry, I don't have time to direct you to them. There are too many. Some are famous, like Brumbaugh (discredited), Strong (discredited), Newbold (discredited), and then there are dozens of blogs claiming solutions and many papers and press releases claiming solutions. I've never done a roundup of links because the results, in my opinion, have no merit and it's not because someone ELSE discredited them, it's because I can see the flaws in the method very readily. I have already written analyses of solutions proferred by Strong, Brumbaugh, Bax, Lockerby, Gibbs, et al.
Quote:It seems as if people in general have no idea of how many claimed translations have been offered. What is a little more unnerving is that no-one seems to have troubled to investigate them in any depth.
What if one is a true translation that has been slapped with a routine 'Just Ignore' sticker, and everyone has obediently done as instructed?
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Good grief!!!
I don't think this is happening at all!! EVERY translation I see I go through with a fine-tooth comb to see if the method is consistent and the logic defendible. I also check very carefully to determine how much was based on method, how much on guesswork, and how much on subjective tinkering with the text. I'm sure if I am doing it then anyone with a serious interest in cryptanalysis is also doing it.
There's no way the research community specifically interested in the text would turn his or her back on something with genuine merit. The only way this might happen is if the code-breaker didn't reveal enough for us to make a judgment.