11-11-2019, 07:21 PM
(10-11-2019, 07:05 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(10-11-2019, 02:12 PM)Davidsch wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
The amount of votes in the poll, shows that interest is low,...
I have noticed that whenever a thread is purely about the text, that participation drops to only a handful of people compared to threads about the imagery.
I am very interested in the text.
Davidsch and -JKP-, I just wanted to say I feel your pain on this. The text is most of what holds my interest in the VM. My likelihood of coming back to a Voynich researcher's blog increases proportionally to how much they focus on the text. René and Nick's blogs are just hands down the best resources for *general* VM info. But I've found you two gentlemen's blogs, plus Emma's and formerly Stephen Bax's, the most fun to read and think about. I'm a very verbal and auditory thinker, not so much visual. Plus I don't have the background in medieval European art, literature, or history to add much to discussions of the imagery. I have, however, been an amateur linguist and geographer my whole life, who really appreciates the art of writing, as in scripts and calligraphy.
What I'm discovering, and am humbled by, is that understanding the imagery is likely our only hope for understanding the text. What is standing in the way of decoding the VM is too little context. And if we find the fruits of -JKP-'s labors convincing, and accept that the VM's script is synthetic and likely idiosyncratic, that leaves the imagery and the physical characteristics of the book as our only leads for more context.