09-08-2026, 05:34 PM
(31-07-2026, 10:05 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And that is where everybody got lost down the wrong path. Sigh.
Those facts are undisputed, but that assumption does not follow at all from them.
The right approach would have been, "let's determine the properties of Voynichese, and then let's look for languages that have similar properties, modulo the original alphabet and spelling system."
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Right.
And was that ever done systematically for all european languages of ~1400AD? Did you?

