21-07-2018, 08:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-07-2018, 08:30 PM by Hubert Dale.)
(20-07-2018, 07:25 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Another useful test of solutions in general is to see what the most common words in the Voynich MS translate to. These are words like:
chol
daiin
chedy
aiin
qokaiin
If they translate to various different plain text words or phrases, or to words/phrases that are not expected to be very common in the plain text, then this is a very bad sign.
I have not done this check.
I’m reminded that there was an informal test for proposed decipherments of Linear B, before it was recognised as early Greek, whereby the greater the number of unattested words a claimed solution contained which had to be explained away as names of unknown deities, the less likely it was to be correct.
Ventris’s passed.
(21-07-2018, 08:27 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.He's expanding the stubs (or sometimes interpreting the stubs, like "re", into whatever thing it could be) and that's something Google Translate can't do.
Exactly. But he’s not given any indication of doing so by a consistent process, let alone one which would allow the plaintext to be recovered unambiguously.

