13-08-2020, 08:52 AM
Mark, without wanting to turn this into a personal thing, from your many statements here and on cipher mysteries, it is clear that you are not familiar with some of the key statistical properties of the text, let alone the many more specific analyses that have been done, and are relevant.
As long as you think that the Voynich MS could be an implementation of an Italian diplomatic cipher, you demonstrate this clearly. But maybe you have changed your view of that?
'Understanding' the Voynich MS takes a very long learning curve, and a completely non-standard one.
Now I agree that we don't yet know enough to be able to interpret the text.
However, the main point is that we know 'enough' to invalidate the vast majority of proposed solutions at a moment's notice. The proposers of these solutions don't understand that, because they don't know 'enough'. This makes the related discussions tedious and pointless.
There is a good example of that running on this forum right now....
As long as you think that the Voynich MS could be an implementation of an Italian diplomatic cipher, you demonstrate this clearly. But maybe you have changed your view of that?
'Understanding' the Voynich MS takes a very long learning curve, and a completely non-standard one.
Now I agree that we don't yet know enough to be able to interpret the text.
However, the main point is that we know 'enough' to invalidate the vast majority of proposed solutions at a moment's notice. The proposers of these solutions don't understand that, because they don't know 'enough'. This makes the related discussions tedious and pointless.
There is a good example of that running on this forum right now....