The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

how I see your theory and Stolfi's Chinese theory. The more effort you put into defending your theories the less convincing they look to me. I've tried to understand why, and now I realize it's quite simple. It's absolutely clear that both you and Prof. Stolfi are very convinced in the merits of your respective theories and both of you are highly motivated to look for evidence supporting the respective theories. So with every new post that doesn't actually contain any good direct evidence, it seems more and more likely to me that no definitive evidence can be found at all.

Well, I could say the same in the other direction:

It is clear that you are very convinced of your theory and you are highly motivated to look for evidence that refutes the Chinese Origin theory and the SPS≈SBJ claim. So with every new post that does not contain any good evidence against them, it seems more and more likely that no evidence can be found at all.

The evidence for SPS≈SBJ, specifically, includes the crib position matches (主 <-> daiin, 气 <-> Chedy, etc) in about 35 recipe-parag pairs (~50%) of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  Considering that 4 pages are missing and a few dozen SPS parags were merged by the Scribe into mega-parags with unknown boundaries, the success rate could not be more than ~67%.  Some of those 35 matches are somewhat strained or uncertain, especially when they have only one or two cribs, or the SPS keywords are "spelling variants" like kaiin or dain for daiin. Any one of these, by itself, could argued to be mere coincidence.  But others just cannot be coincidences.  The latter include the 7-crib match between the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ("red rooster") and the longest non-mashed-up SPS parag (f105v.32).  One cannot dismiss that as coincidence, even if one carefully avoid looking at the numbers.

If I am allowed to say so, the the Chinese Origin theory is the only theory I have seen in almost 30 years of Voynich hacking that is compatible with every feature we see in the VMS -- from the original script and all statistics and structural analyses to the multiple-section organization to the 15/30 labels in the Zodiac diagrams to the ignorant Scribe to the unidentifiable plants to the number and length of the Starred parags ... and to the big red weirdos on f1r.  And it is also the only theory that offers a plausible scenario for how the text was created and written down.  And it is also the only theory that offers a plausible explanation for why the book was created at all...

Sorry for the rant.  I will go back to my hole now.  All the best, --stolfi