06-07-2018, 11:03 PM
The problem with this theory (and so many others) is, as I pointed out before (and many others apart from me), the great scope for anagramming, or the free insertion of characters. You can basically expand the "translation" into any textual scope you fancy.
A simple example of how cultural artefacts are being inserted into Dr Michael Hoffman's translation is in his first translation on page 4 of this thread where he writes ", set the table, voila!".
Nobody in the 15th century would write "set the table" or give an exclamation like "voila!" to mean "task completed". This is purely a Renaissance onwards European cultural artefact. It's so common for us to say "set the table and put the food out, that's it" that we don't argue the possibility that our ancestors did the same.
In short, taking the transcription that Dr M.H. proposes, we could expand the text in a different way and get a different "translation". It depends upon what we want to extract from the text.
All this proves is that, even if the method is correct, the original meaning is lost to us.
On a different tangent, I would point out that arguing that you need a modern science degree to understand this translation effort would indicate that you believe the VM to be a modern hoax - if you need a modern science degree to decode it, surely you need a modern degree to create the encoding process?
A simple example of how cultural artefacts are being inserted into Dr Michael Hoffman's translation is in his first translation on page 4 of this thread where he writes ", set the table, voila!".
Nobody in the 15th century would write "set the table" or give an exclamation like "voila!" to mean "task completed". This is purely a Renaissance onwards European cultural artefact. It's so common for us to say "set the table and put the food out, that's it" that we don't argue the possibility that our ancestors did the same.
In short, taking the transcription that Dr M.H. proposes, we could expand the text in a different way and get a different "translation". It depends upon what we want to extract from the text.
All this proves is that, even if the method is correct, the original meaning is lost to us.
On a different tangent, I would point out that arguing that you need a modern science degree to understand this translation effort would indicate that you believe the VM to be a modern hoax - if you need a modern science degree to decode it, surely you need a modern degree to create the encoding process?
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