28-08-2016, 11:02 AM
When I started working on the Voynich, I began wondering if it might not have been solved a dozen times already, but been in a language so obscure that no one recognized it as a correct solution.
Some languages like Gothic or Hebrew or even Old Norse don't look like real words to someone who isn't familiar with them.
Also, I keep getting a sense that a lot of the people running text analyses might be forgetting to use Medieval languages instead of modern forms... I remember a guy who did a list of word endings and was clearly using Modern English for his comparisons, lacking a lot of verb endings that were common in Middle or Early Modern English (-est and -eth, for example; and also not thinking to include the letters thorn and yogh in his letter frequencies.)
Some languages like Gothic or Hebrew or even Old Norse don't look like real words to someone who isn't familiar with them.
Also, I keep getting a sense that a lot of the people running text analyses might be forgetting to use Medieval languages instead of modern forms... I remember a guy who did a list of word endings and was clearly using Modern English for his comparisons, lacking a lot of verb endings that were common in Middle or Early Modern English (-est and -eth, for example; and also not thinking to include the letters thorn and yogh in his letter frequencies.)