17-05-2019, 12:27 AM
(16-05-2019, 10:59 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(16-05-2019, 06:52 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(16-05-2019, 12:23 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The manuscript "has been deciphered", but "Cheshire hopes that fellow researchers will now use his findings to translate the entire Voynich manuscript."
As (almost) always, the decipherer leaves the deciphering to others.
It's reasonable for somebody to say that they have discovered how the script and the text works but aren't really qualified to translate it all. Translating a small section of the text might be enough to demonstrate validity if supported by a well reasoned solution.
Emma, as spartans replied "if", I will reply - "might".
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I'm simply saying that deciphering and translating aren't the same thing. For a decipherer to call on language experts to translate the resulting text does not invalidate that decipherment. What invalidates it are bad reasoning and bad conclusions.
Sure, you can't output garbage and demand Old Cornish scholars tell you what it means. But you can say that your example translations are incomplete and rough, intended only to demonstrate the solution, and humbly admit that you're going to struggle improving them.