[Book] Prof. Eleonora Matarrese * Nymðe - The Unearthing

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I've read MHG texts.  The syntax in these texts is not radically different from modern German, and it isn't a word salad.  Word salads are a recurring problem with Voynich solutions, at least the pre ChatGPT ones. Along with rarely addressing the unlanguagelike behaviour of Voynichese, their translations are often a syntax-free jumble of words that don't resemble contemporary texts of the chosen dialect or language.

And here's the problem:  if we accepted it's fine for a solution to to look like such a word salad and if we also accepted there's no need to explain the behaviour of Voynichese, we are left with hundreds of incompatible solutions that we can't pick between.  We'd accept your solution today, then Cheshire's tomorrow, a Latin one for Sunday, Middle English for Monday, then maybe it would be the Turkish solution's turn.   

I'm not going to read a 500 page document for a solution that is probably - from initial appearances - no different from all the hundreds of solutions that are out there, many of which have been posted on the forum.  I've read extensively through a lot of these in the past but I fear I've reached my limit.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, you could try outlining how your solution deals with the entropy problem of Voynichese and the line pattern problems (line start behaviour, line end behaviour, top row behaviour etc).  

Professor, this forum is as serious and scientific as it gets for the voynich manuscript discussions. Certainly more serious than facebook.

Yes, every time I've been to that facebook group, it's seemed full of people posting mutually incompatible solutions.  Not quite a bastion of scientific rigour.

And I know it's confirmation bias causing them to downplay the parallels, but it still baffles me how they can see their fellow posters being passionately committed to a wrong solution and yet never think for one moment "Oh no, am I doing the same?"