Voynich decoded completely

[Koen G]

It is just as illogical as if five hundred years from now somebody would find my book in Slovenian in Toronto library and would conclude that it must be in English, because most books were written in English.

A better analogy would be that if someone found a website in 500 years and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It's the language most closely associated with the medium. I believe this is what Helmut meant, and in that regard I certainly follow him: if you had to write down a blind guess of which language underlies Voynichese (if any), Latin would be statistically the best guess. (Where I don't follow Helmut is that abbreviations solve any of our problems, but that's a different story). That doesn't mean that I do or do not think it's Latin: my whole point is that we need to better understand the system before we can say anything about the underlying language.


Tell me, Cvetka. How can it be explained that the Ardıç family is as convinced of Turkic as you are of Slovenian? Ruby has been writing for years about how it's Greek. Dr. Michael Hoffmann tells us that he decoded it completely, and it's Latin. A couple of years ago the media went nuts over Cheshire discovering that it's proto-Romance, which doesn't even exist as a medieval language. The list goes on and on and on. How can all these people be equally convinced that their mutually exclusive theories are correct?