Old Polish (geoffreycaveney's theory)
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(17-10-2020, 04:18 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is simply not possible to properly evaluate a theory about a text written in an unknown script representing a Slavic language, if one does not have any specific linguistic knowledge of Slavic languages and Slavic linguistics. Without such knowledge, one cannot possibly be qualified to evaluate such a theory.

Any theory that tries to explain the Voynich MS text as a case of language X has to meet the known properties of the Voynich MS text and the proposed language X.

Both.

It can be rejected without knowledge of language X, if it does not meet the properties of the Voynich MS.

Furthermore, the theory needs to be acceptable in terms of logic, and it has to be statistically sound.
Also these two points are independent of the proposed language.

Of course, if you find anyone who has knowledge of Slavic languages, and who thinks that your plain text is sensible, then your proposed solution could deserve more serious attention.

The famous proposed solution by Hauer and Kondrak failed in all these counts (i.e. not even considering the Hebrew language). Of course, it was also rejected by people really knowing Hebrew.
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