21-11-2025, 10:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 21-11-2025, 10:29 AM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(20-11-2025, 10:28 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Who says it's a language?
It's drums.
The translation clearly shows a tam tam bum bum.
I read somewhere (Scientific American?) long ago that tamtam language is an imitation of the tones and stresses of natural language, with sentences stretched with redundant words to make it possible to infer the meaning.
Something like
"Voynichese is not Chinese, idiot" -->
"Voynichese of the Voynich from Voynich at Beinecke Library is NOT NO NO Chinese From China, you dummy dumb dumb idiot" -->
"TUMtumtum tum tum TUMtum tum TUMtum tum tumTUM TUMtumtum tum TUM TUM TUM TUMtum fum TUMtum, tum TUMtum TUM TUM TUMtum"
The intended recipient would of course know that "TUMtumtum tum tum TUMtum tum TUMtum" is the mnemonic code for "Voynichese", "TUM TUM TUM" means "not", "TUMtum TUM TUM TUMtum" means "idiot", etc.
All the best, --stolfi