13-07-2019, 04:13 PM
You will need input from various specializations, naturally, but I agree with Anton that methodology is more important.
To me it's more about how quickly people are apparently willing to call something a solution. Propose a conversion scheme that makes sense for a couple of words, and you've made a Voynich solution. While we know that it doesn't work like that, because dozens of people have done it in a different way, all with the same feeling of success.
The real solution will be in discovering how to deal with the various statistical oddities of the text and how those can be linked to language somehow. But people who understand this and try to tackle these problems aren't very likely to call "solution" soon because they better understand the challenges we face.
To me it's more about how quickly people are apparently willing to call something a solution. Propose a conversion scheme that makes sense for a couple of words, and you've made a Voynich solution. While we know that it doesn't work like that, because dozens of people have done it in a different way, all with the same feeling of success.
The real solution will be in discovering how to deal with the various statistical oddities of the text and how those can be linked to language somehow. But people who understand this and try to tackle these problems aren't very likely to call "solution" soon because they better understand the challenges we face.