(12-12-2021, 08:08 PM)tavie wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Granted, I feel rather less tolerant (and far more scathing) towards Cheshire than I would be for all the other theorists, because as an academic with a PhD, he has less excuse to follow such a sloppy approach.
Yes, one could simply state that Cheshire has not contributed anything of value to Voynich research and probably will not in the future. For someone like me, who constantly questions his own thoughts about the solution of the Voynich mystery, someone like Cheshire is hardly imaginable as a serious VMS researcher. In the shortest time, and free of any previous knowledge, a crude theory was simply put together which pushes the existing knowledge of the professional world (especially linguists) aside. One may expect more from an academic.
This is not, of course, an assessment of Cheshire as a person. He also has every right in the world to do his thing, regardless of what others think.