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  Torsten > Yesterday, 08:32 PM

  SciShow published a video about the Voynich manuscript: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  
  

  Quote:The Voynich manuscript is a subject of fascination with its mysterious drawings of plants, people, and stars, as well as its indecipherable text. But rather than hiding ancient secrets, this book might be a medieval fraud, created by an algorithm executed with nothing more than a pen.

  script is a subject of fascination with its mysterious drawings of 

• RE: This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

  Koen G > Yesterday, 08:58 PM

  Who are these scientist that recently made a breakthrough?

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  RobGea > Yesterday, 09:48 PM

  That was a pretty good video, they could have given Torsten and Schinner a shout out though.

• RE: This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

  Rafal > Yesterday, 10:24 PM

  This is good and informative video. The observations appear correct - words are predictable and similar words appear close to each other.
  But it still doesn't have to mean that the text is gibberish. I would have some possible explanations.
  
  There is also actually chance that some parts are gibberish (for example plants) while other are meaningful.
  I believe this is very important thread which suggests that some parts are "better" than other ones:
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• RE: This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

  voynichrose > 5 hours ago

  Has anyone noticed that two token vords most often end up butted up right next too plant leaves and stems?  It would seem like this is forced.  Is there anyway to see if this would be a culprit of a meaningless text?

• RE: This Famous Medieval Book May Be a Hoax

  dashstofsk > 17 minutes ago

  (Yesterday, 08:58 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Who are these scientist that recently made a breakthrough?

  
  The video seems to be quoting the paper "A Possible Generating Algorithm of the Voynich Manuscript" by Torsten Timm and Andreas Schinner, and dated June 13, 2019. The 'long distance' effect is one more oddity of the manuscript that any 'translation' hypothesis of the manuscript will have to explain.
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