12-09-2024, 09:21 PM
Even with all the recent exciting MSI developments I think we must not lose ourselves in overly quick conclusions.
Fact is that we do not know what purpose, if any, the marginalia were supposed to serve, with or without Voynichese.
But I find it curious that all of the marginalia appear to be highly ambiguous gibberish. Also they mirror both text and imagery in being cobbled together from a toolkit of relatively common elements, yet overall they don't make any sense. All elements of the VM look and feel familiar, yet are profoundly odd in a bigger context. Is that a mere coincidence?
That said, I'm also skeptical about the "in that case, take goat's milk" translation - or any other for that matter. It may look like it at first glance, but not quite without significant mental gymnastics. Like most VM "theories". I'm afraid it's not that easy. And again - if it was a single ambiguous line of text, fine. But all marginalia are like this. What are the odds that this is just our inability to read an ordinary sentence correctly?
Fact is that we do not know what purpose, if any, the marginalia were supposed to serve, with or without Voynichese.
But I find it curious that all of the marginalia appear to be highly ambiguous gibberish. Also they mirror both text and imagery in being cobbled together from a toolkit of relatively common elements, yet overall they don't make any sense. All elements of the VM look and feel familiar, yet are profoundly odd in a bigger context. Is that a mere coincidence?
That said, I'm also skeptical about the "in that case, take goat's milk" translation - or any other for that matter. It may look like it at first glance, but not quite without significant mental gymnastics. Like most VM "theories". I'm afraid it's not that easy. And again - if it was a single ambiguous line of text, fine. But all marginalia are like this. What are the odds that this is just our inability to read an ordinary sentence correctly?
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