24-10-2018, 02:14 PM
I hadn't see it either, I just remembered someone saying someone else had suggested "tunic" for chiton.
In my early research I made a point of NOT looking at other Voynich blogs and theories. I filtered out the words "VMS" and "Voynich" so I could get to original sources without going through other people's interpretations of what things were. I still do that quite frequently. I tend to filter out "pinterest" as well. It's like having to jump a couple of fences that shouldn't be in the way and it bothers me that Google gives the Pinterest images priority over the original site that OWNS the images. They really shouldn't do that.
I got pulled into Nick's blog a few times not specifically because of the VMS, but because cryptanalysis in general interests me. I'm a puzzle freak; I love puzzles and games. And then I would see comments about the VMS. But I haven't even read 1/10th of what Nick has written except for the most recent blogs.
I got drawn into Bax's site a couple of times also, but I've only read a few of the posts. I haven't looked at most of them. I read yours. I find many of them have a refreshing perspective. I read Marco's although I don't know how long he's been blogging, so if there were earlier ones, I haven't seen them. There are apparently a lot of "previous generation" researchers who had blogs that I don't even know about and on rare occasions I stumble upon them.
I've never read the old "mailing lists" people talk about. I have consulted them a couple of times to verify statements I've seen on this forum, but that's probably not even 1% of 1% of them. From what I understand a lot of discussion went on. I spend most of my time looking at manuscripts. I'm addicted to them.
In my early research I made a point of NOT looking at other Voynich blogs and theories. I filtered out the words "VMS" and "Voynich" so I could get to original sources without going through other people's interpretations of what things were. I still do that quite frequently. I tend to filter out "pinterest" as well. It's like having to jump a couple of fences that shouldn't be in the way and it bothers me that Google gives the Pinterest images priority over the original site that OWNS the images. They really shouldn't do that.
I got pulled into Nick's blog a few times not specifically because of the VMS, but because cryptanalysis in general interests me. I'm a puzzle freak; I love puzzles and games. And then I would see comments about the VMS. But I haven't even read 1/10th of what Nick has written except for the most recent blogs.
I got drawn into Bax's site a couple of times also, but I've only read a few of the posts. I haven't looked at most of them. I read yours. I find many of them have a refreshing perspective. I read Marco's although I don't know how long he's been blogging, so if there were earlier ones, I haven't seen them. There are apparently a lot of "previous generation" researchers who had blogs that I don't even know about and on rare occasions I stumble upon them.
I've never read the old "mailing lists" people talk about. I have consulted them a couple of times to verify statements I've seen on this forum, but that's probably not even 1% of 1% of them. From what I understand a lot of discussion went on. I spend most of my time looking at manuscripts. I'm addicted to them.