02-04-2024, 12:52 AM
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I get the feeling from his paper that Tiltman was not that hot on the Conlang idea.
[1]THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" BY BRIGADIER JOHN H. TILTMAN
Quote:Mr. Friedman disclosed to me his belief that the basis of the script
was a very primitive form of synthetic universal language such as was developed
in the form of a philosophical classification of ideas by Bishop Wilkins in 1667 and Dalgarno a little later.
It was clear that the productions of these two men were much too systematic,
and anything of the kind would have been almost instantly recognisable.
My analysis seemed to me to reveal a cumbersome mixture of different kinds of substitution.
...I tried in 1957 to trace back the idea of universal character, but I had little time to devote to this research.[1]
[1]THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" BY BRIGADIER JOHN H. TILTMAN