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(13-10-2021, 04:26 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So you see, it is not a matter of quantity.

Yes. Quality matters, but quality is subjective. If the method produces a word salad, it will not be clear to someone who is not proficient in the language(s) involved. This is why I don't comment on Persian, Turkish, etc. theories. Some amount of ambiguity and interpretation must be allowed in translation. All sorts of special pleading can then be invoked to allow almost anything: the author used words from several languages, words have a lot of undocumented variants, grammar is bad, etc. All possible, but where is the limit?

An important matter is to protect against cherry-picking and confirmation bias:
What does your theory predict, specifically, that can be checked objectively? (Like grammar or external validation of meaning) If the answer is nothing, your theory is too vague or not failible "not even wrong", it is not a strong theory.
What does your theory not predict that actually happens? If there is too much of that (like no explanation for any of the many known properties of Voynichese), your theory is incomplete at best.
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How many pages? - by Pardis Motiee - 13-10-2021, 04:00 PM
RE: How many pages? - by Koen G - 13-10-2021, 04:26 PM
RE: How many pages? - by nablator - 13-10-2021, 06:08 PM
RE: How many pages? - by Koen G - 13-10-2021, 10:06 PM
RE: How many pages? - by nablator - 13-10-2021, 11:06 PM
RE: How many pages? - by zamolxe - 14-10-2021, 09:33 AM
RE: How many pages? - by Koen G - 14-10-2021, 12:08 AM
RE: How many pages? - by MarcoP - 14-10-2021, 09:03 AM
RE: How many pages? - by nablator - 14-10-2021, 11:28 AM

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