[split] Implications of multiple scribes

[Ben Trovato]

That's my feeling too Don, that it may be a family project.

At first, I thought maybe the kids helping grandpa, and grandpa recording his trade secrets or travels (or something else)... but now I'm leaning more toward grandpa helping the kids.

If my thoughts wander in this direction, i'd like to take the middle ground. I can vividly imagine Papa Quack sitting at the kitchen table, surronded by his Quack sons (and maybe one or two Quack apprentices) guiding them through a project that would help them gain more reputation in crowded market places, where you have to compete with tose other quacks. Maybe he was not a Quack for all of his life, maybe he was a miller or something, and you would see that his hands are still those of a labourer - and also his writing was not the most refined. The young ones would do better with there soft hands, but he was the one overseeing the whole process and teaching them how to arrange the glyphs on a page -> he is Scribe 2, the "collaborative scribe".

Of course this is pure imagination, but: 

This is precisely why I find Lisa Fagin Davis's breakthrough such good news. It raises the odds that Voynichese contains some sort of real human communication.

I completely disagree with this!