Was Voynichese meant to be pronounced?
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(12-10-2019, 06:36 PM)Common_Man wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Just logically speaking, I don't expect someone from 1400s to sit and write a 200 page manuscript and make it non pronounceable, or a full on obscure text (unless it's of utmost importance, as in a military/spy/religious document?). Come on.. What are the odds that one encrypts something into a non pronounceable form and...

I read someone (Rene?) observe that the "odds" argument rises this question: how do we estimate odds?

The VMS is unique in so many ways that one could say it should not exist, but it does. What are the odds of a ms showing a naked woman standing on a fish-tailed cone with a "dead pangolin" pouring rain above her head? What are the odds of a zodiac with 2 Arietes and 2 Tauri and a single occurrence of the other signs? What are the odds of a highly complex diagram with 6 jars at its center, where one expects a symbol of the earth, god, Jerusalem or Mecca? What are the odds of the common word-final symbol 9 being systematically followed by words beginning with the Arabic numeral 4?
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RE: Was Voynichese meant to be pronounced? - by MarcoP - 13-10-2019, 09:02 AM

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