Mark Knowles > 08-12-2021, 04:59 PM
(08-12-2021, 04:11 PM)pfeaster Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you mean something like this?
[al] = all, ale, ail, awl, al[cohol], Al[exander]; (read backwards) law, lay
[am] = am, aim, ham; (read backwards) may, ma [i.e., mother]
[alam] = a lamb, a lame, a lam[p]; (read backwards) mala [Latin, "cheekbone"]
[ok] = oak, o'c[lock]
[ot] = oat, ought, aught, out, hoot; (read backwards) toe, tow, too, two
[ar] = are, ar[tichoke], our, hour; (read backwards) raw
[otar] = otter, other, author; (read partly backwards as [to-ar]) tower
[air] = air, ear, er[ror], Ire[land]; (read backwards) ray, wrai[th]
[or] = or, ore, oar, whore, Or[pheus]; (read backwards) row
[oror] = horror; (read backwards) "row, row" (as in "row, row, row your boat")
[chor] = chore, core, chor[us]; (read backwards) roach
[chol] = coal, cool; (read backwards) loch
[shor] = shore, sure, sore, soar, shower; (read backwards) rush
[shol] = shoal, school, shoul[d], sol[d], sho[ve]l; (read backwards) lush
[fachys.ykal.ar.ataiin.shol] = Fact is, I color it in school
[dam] = dam, damn, dam[p]; (read backwards) mad, made, maid, Mad[eleine]
[dar] = dare, there, dar[k], dar[t]; (read backwards) raid, read
[dal] = dale, they'll, dal[ly]; (read backwards) lad, lad[y], lad[der]
[ches], [chees] = cheese, chess; (read backwards) such
[chesy] = cheesy
[chedar] = cheddar; (read backwards) radish
[alchedar] = all cheddar
[cheky], [cheeky] = cheeky
[chedy], [shedy] = shady
[ol] = ol[d], hole, whole, owl; (read backwards) low
[olkedy] = old kitty, whole kiddie
[sain] = sane, sayin[g], seen
[ain] = one, haying, eyeing
[dain] = done, down, town
[aiin] = one! (emphatic)
[daiin] = done! down! (emphatic)
[daiin.daiin.daiin] = done downtown! (emphatic)
[aiiin] = one!! (very emphatic)
[daiiin] = done!! (very emphatic)
pfeaster > 08-12-2021, 05:30 PM
(08-12-2021, 04:59 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You haven't included multiple languages/dialects. (And what about anagrams.) This seems in fact to be a rather conservative list of words, I think you could include many more.
R. Sale > 08-12-2021, 09:15 PM
ReneZ > 14-12-2021, 04:32 PM
Mark Knowles > 14-12-2021, 05:18 PM
(14-12-2021, 04:32 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Voynich "solutions" can be subdivided into two distinct groups:
2) Those that try to explain in what context it was created and possibly by whom, without any text solution
While the discussion here seems to focus more on the first group, the second group of proposed solutions is very significant, and includes anything from the stark raving to the mildly incredible (and everything in between).
Criticizing such "solutions" - from either category - should not be done by people who are actually involved themselves in developing such "solutions". We can see how Cheshire criticizes everyone else, just because he "knows" that he is right.
This can only be done by people (mostly, but not exclusively, academics) who are fully aware that we are, after all this time, still in the "data gathering" stage.
Aga Tentakulus > 14-12-2021, 10:59 PM
lurker > 14-12-2021, 11:07 PM
(14-12-2021, 04:32 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Criticizing such "solutions" - from either category - should not be done by people who are actually involved themselves in developing such "solutions". We can see how Cheshire criticizes everyone else, just because he "knows" that he is right.
This can only be done by people (mostly, but not exclusively, academics) who are fully aware that we are, after all this time, still in the "data gathering" stage. The recent interview of Ray Clemens is an excellent example. Lisa is another example and I know quite a few more people who are at this stage.
Koen G > 14-12-2021, 11:29 PM
Mark Knowles > 15-12-2021, 12:08 AM
(14-12-2021, 11:29 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think René means that one theorist is not able to asses another theorist's work, because they are similarly misled. For example, if I convince myself that the VM is the work of pope Innocent VII, and I see confirmation after confirmation that I am on the right track, I will have lost my ability to assess competing theories objectively.The problem when it comes to this second class is that determining that such assertions are false is much harder to do, if they are indeed false.
R. Sale > 15-12-2021, 12:25 AM