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Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

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This article makes a weird pair to "For the Love of Pipes" which is currently #1 on the homepage.

Very compelling theory laid out here:

https://youtu.be/4cRlqE3D3RQ

There have been a few updates since. Very promising stuff.

Care to summarize for those not able to watch a video?

[SPOILER]

He makes very reasonable guesses on the typography and than on the languages mixed in. He further backs it with some cultural aspects and comes to the conclution that it's probably related to sinti/roma, as their migration route matches the mix of languages.

Thank you.

Obviously it's unfinished work, but my critique of it would be that so far, he has only attempted to identify individual words.

To really be successful, he has to start looking for syntax and grammar in the text.

He admits he's not an expert in the language he has deduced the manuscript is written in. Maybe somebody else who is an expert in that family of languages needs to pick it up from here.

Im guessing they are doing this as we speak. These guys are smart and breaking this "code" would be a lifetime achievement.

Promises much but delivers little, sorry. Merely one of the many who got entangled by Stephen Bax's wonky enthusiasm. :-(

But then again, as a linguistics gig, Voynichese is harsher than 4chan.

Wow. A great research into this manuscript. I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks.

https://youtu.be/p6keMgLmFEk it might be Turkic. In the past Hungary had some Turkic population, such as Pannonian Avars, Pechenegs and Bulgars, centuries before the Ottoman Turks.

We'd all be better off if nobody had ever discovered the Voynich Manuscript

How so?

It's essentially a troll book. There is no "code", it's randomness.

I would agree with you until i saw the three videos from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967921, looks like it is more than randomness.

Nice link, even if I did write it myself. ;-)

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