18-03-2019, 01:24 PM
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Edit Reason: fixed typing error abbreivations = abbreviations
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(18-03-2019, 12:52 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
has anyone simply tried to interpret the Voynich ms by directly transcribing every glyph, combination, and word, into all of the Latin letters and combinations that they would represent, according to the standard rules as you describe them here?
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Yes, I tried this years ago and I'm sure many others have both before and after me since quite a few Voynich researchers know Latin, and Latin is a required course for a number of disciplines (including palaeography). But even taking into consideration common scribal ligatures and abbreviations, the positionality of the VMS text is not like natural language. The 9 abbreviation occurs much too frequently. What's in between the "prefixes" and "suffixes" is too rigid and repetitious.
The text MIGHT be Latin, but not in any normal way. Or it might be another language (or symbolic code) expressed with mostly-Latin characters.