25-09-2016, 12:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-09-2016, 12:42 PM by Diane.
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Emma,
re 'that's what [Jacques] Guy said'... it's true that his "proto-Mandarin" storyline began as a joke, but it didn't end there.
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What you will not find, however, is what followed the Chinese canard. In 1997, a new member of our Voynich interest group, Jorge Stolfi, a professor of computer science, came up with statistical evidence that the structure of "Voynichese" was very similar to that of Mandarin Chinese. Highly sceptical, I set about finding flaws in his data or his reasoning. I could fault neither, and I wrote as much, just as emphatically as I had confessed to my Chinese hoax. There was then a lively exchange lasting some two years, with evidence mounting for the Chinese-like structure of Voynichese.
re 'that's what [Jacques] Guy said'... it's true that his "proto-Mandarin" storyline began as a joke, but it didn't end there.
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To save everyone following the link, here's the important bit.
What you will not find, however, is what followed the Chinese canard. In 1997, a new member of our Voynich interest group, Jorge Stolfi, a professor of computer science, came up with statistical evidence that the structure of "Voynichese" was very similar to that of Mandarin Chinese. Highly sceptical, I set about finding flaws in his data or his reasoning. I could fault neither, and I wrote as much, just as emphatically as I had confessed to my Chinese hoax. There was then a lively exchange lasting some two years, with evidence mounting for the Chinese-like structure of Voynichese.