Revisiting A Voynich Prize

[Mark Knowles]

Just to clarify, it's not up to me or Koen or anyone else to "decide" if we have a solution or not.

If there were a prize then there would be a prize committee, I would have thought from the Beinicke and/or Yale, though other academic experts may be suitable, who would decide if they thought someone would merit receiving the prize. I think a solution could be referred to them if it satisfied criteria such as those I mentioned before or if there was some degree of support for it from ordinary researchers.

But no solution is censored or promoted by this forum.

That is quite as it should be.

It is up to the majority of users in this forum to decide whether a translation is a genuine one or not.

Whilst it is democratic, I am not sure whether that is the best way for the validity of a solution to be determined. There has been quite a lot of popular interest in or support by the public for certain theories, though it is true not in the forum, such as Cheshire's theory or the Ardic Turkic theory.

Although I suspect that a real translation may well be outside the capabilities of many of us to recognise.

We will see I am not so convinced of that.