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[pjburkshire]

I'm afraid we'll have to wait for centuries because there are no words to decipher.

I don't know when this talk was given but the YouTube upload date for the video is Nov 27, 2023. In the Q&A after the talk, Lisa Fagin Davis says she is optimistic that the language of the Voynich Manuscript will be deciphered.


WellesleyCollege
Friends of the Library Lecture: Lisa Fagin Davis
Nov 27, 2023

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Transcript:

1:06:56
- [Participant] Setting aside your personal aspirations, how likely do you think it will be that you will solve the mystery of this particular Manuscript?
- Me or someone? Not me, I'm no linguist.
- [Participant] You or someone.
- I am hopeful that as more computing power is thrown at this, as more interdisciplinary, collaborations take place, I think we'll get there. I really do. And I think, yeah, I think we'll get there. And that'll be just the beginning, right? That's not the end. Once you can read it, then you've got a whole new world to explore, right. You know, that's not the end of the puzzle. I think that will only be the only be the beginning.