Emma May Smith > 01-06-2018, 08:30 PM
Anton > 01-06-2018, 09:39 PM
Quote: Most importantly, it has been suggested (Bax, Emma?) that Voynichese script was a project that didn't really take off well. It seems very possible to me that they first tried to get a feel for the script on a scientific text they had handy, rather than go for a bible right away. In this sense, the VM script would be the preparation for a language's own script, rather than a fully blossoming one.
Quote:As Sam brought up in our discussion, certain areas throughout history have seen all books destroyed during tumultuous times.
Quote:Here's the thing: it doesn't really matter whether the Voynich script was invented completely new or adapted from an existing script. Plenty of people with the appropriate knowledge have looked at the script and nobody has identified it. That means it cannot be read using outside knowledge.
Emma May Smith > 01-06-2018, 10:08 PM
(01-06-2018, 09:39 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:Here's the thing: it doesn't really matter whether the Voynich script was invented completely new or adapted from an existing script. Plenty of people with the appropriate knowledge have looked at the script and nobody has identified it. That means it cannot be read using outside knowledge.
Well, it can be approached by adding hypotheses and testing them, that's what people are doing. That's just another avenue of solving the task, as opposed to trying to understand the script on its own. Actually, I have no problems with that, I don't want to say to anyone "don't do this or don't do that", I just put forth some reasoning of that some class of hypotheses doesn't look plausible from the beginning, so it might be in vain to bother testing individual hypotheses on their own.
Helmut Winkler > 02-06-2018, 08:21 AM
Paris > 02-06-2018, 08:57 AM
Emma May Smith > 02-06-2018, 10:28 AM
(02-06-2018, 08:21 AM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I guess it's not much use, but i'm telling you now for the last time that the manuscript is from the 15th century (C14) and the script is a Gothic script of the 15th century and the rest of the manuscript also fits there, one of the consequences is that the language is probably Latin with some German and as long as you won't accept this you won't make any progress
Helmut Winkler > 03-06-2018, 06:48 AM
(02-06-2018, 10:28 AM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-06-2018, 08:21 AM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I guess it's not much use, but i'm telling you now for the last time that the manuscript is from the 15th century (C14) and the script is a Gothic script of the 15th century and the rest of the manuscript also fits there, one of the consequences is that the language is probably Latin with some German and as long as you won't accept this you won't make any progress
Can you read it?
MarcoP > 05-06-2018, 11:19 AM
(03-06-2018, 06:48 AM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-06-2018, 10:28 AM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-06-2018, 08:21 AM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I guess it's not much use, but i'm telling you now for the last time that the manuscript is from the 15th century (C14) and the script is a Gothic script of the 15th century and the rest of the manuscript also fits there, one of the consequences is that the language is probably Latin with some German and as long as you won't accept this you won't make any progress
Can you read it?
Yes, of course, at least most of it, there are some things I am not sure, everybody can who has some basic knowleddge of Latin palaeography, Only it is so highly abbreviated, that I dont understand great parts of it
Antonio García Jiménez > 05-06-2018, 05:49 PM
Helmut Winkler > 05-06-2018, 05:51 PM