28-04-2018, 10:11 AM
David: Oops, I just read the forum rules and hope that I have not derailed your thread in my enthusiasm. I do not want to be "that guy".
Koen: Yes, which is why I was asking on the other thread if there were any native Chinese Voynicheros?
You make excellent points. Turkic would be a good choice, I know there was that Turkish family - has that attempt been critically reviewed?
I don't think I was proposing that VMS was a transcription of a Chinese document or done by a Chinese scribe.
If anything I am imagining not Bacon but somebody like him who had some contact with the language and used it as an inspiration - not necessarily as a hoax but rather as a stunt. For instance if he was like Bacon rather crusty and abrasive, got into trouble with the hierarchy, and was put in prison/house arrest/promoted sideways for a time - then went "I'll show them!" and created the VMS in his newly found down time.
Human nature and academic rivalry remains the same over the ages! I've seen it up close and man, it's scary - no quarter is given. It makes "Shogun" look tame, though they draw the line at murder I guess.
Koen: Yes, which is why I was asking on the other thread if there were any native Chinese Voynicheros?
You make excellent points. Turkic would be a good choice, I know there was that Turkish family - has that attempt been critically reviewed?
I don't think I was proposing that VMS was a transcription of a Chinese document or done by a Chinese scribe.
If anything I am imagining not Bacon but somebody like him who had some contact with the language and used it as an inspiration - not necessarily as a hoax but rather as a stunt. For instance if he was like Bacon rather crusty and abrasive, got into trouble with the hierarchy, and was put in prison/house arrest/promoted sideways for a time - then went "I'll show them!" and created the VMS in his newly found down time.
Human nature and academic rivalry remains the same over the ages! I've seen it up close and man, it's scary - no quarter is given. It makes "Shogun" look tame, though they draw the line at murder I guess.