07-05-2021, 08:25 PM
(07-05-2021, 08:08 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Right, so if I encode something using your system and it doesn't look like Voynichese and you cannot retrieve its meaning, this must be because I used the wrong style of text. This makes your theory untestable.
I am happy to look at any text that you encode or encipher using my system, and I will do my best to retrieve its meaning. Most likely, in fact, that process will be easier for me if you use a standard text than it is for the Voynich MS text itself, because it seems to me that the epigrammatic style of the Voynich MS text is more obscure than most other styles of texts.
But I simply want to point out that even using the same system, there may still be differences in the appearance of the Voynich MS text and the text that you, I, or others may encipher, due to differences in the styles of the original texts. That is all I am saying. Again, I am basing my "collection of one-line epigrams" hypothesis precisely on the well-known "line-based structural features" of the Voynich MS text that analysts have identified for many decades and that many of us are very well familiar with.
Koen, I sincerely hope that you do go ahead and proceed with the enciphering of some text using my system. It will be a good learning experience regardless of whether we or others share the same opinions about the conclusions to be drawn from the results of such a process. I would be most interested to see what cipher text you may produce by this method.
Geoffrey