06-12-2021, 01:28 PM
I suppose when it comes to translation/decipherment theories I am not really thinking of examples where someone has produced a small crib. I, myself, for example think EVA-asal on the T/O map on the Rosettes folio means "asia", but I don't consider that a translation/decipherment theory as I don't try to explain how the Voynichese text maps onto that word. So when someone like Stephen Bax claims to have identified/translated 10 words given its limited scope I am not sure that could be considered a decipherment theory as it is so partial and incomplete. Using the "Voynich prize" idea as a reference I have suggested that this would be for a complete decipherment and certainly not for just 10 words. The theories like the Cheshire theory or the Turkic theory are complete decipherment theories. It is true I think that Bax proposed a mapping of symbols for his 10 words thereby starting to construct a translation/decipherment theory and was on the road to building a simple substitution theory on the basis of source words from multiple languages which would put his theory in the Cheshire category. However such a theory by its limited nature and limited claims is much harder to debunk, if it is indeed mistaken, than a complete decipherment theory.