(13-04-2016, 07:56 PM)david wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here's a half formed idea that I'm going to throw amongst you all to see what response we get.
What is the Voynich text is nonsense - but the image aren't?
I've just finished re-Reading Carruthers art of memory and her ideas on memonics have stuck.
So imagine that every single image is encoded, and possibly the labels, into a mnemonic structure. A sort of visual shorthand. But the bulk of the text is filler to "throw you off the scent".
Possible? Of course it is. Probable? Hmm.
Right from the beginning I've assumed it might not be possible to "decode" it or that it might not have meaning.
I've also assumed that the illustrator and scribe might be two different people and the text may not be related to the images (that it might be sensitive political commentary, for example).
The rigid structure of the text is concerning. It speaks against natural language but... it depends how you look it at and what system might have been used to encode (if it is in fact encoded).
But, there are patterns and characteristics that give me hope that there is meaning in the text and that it does relate to the pictures, and that keeps me going.