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Cracking the Voynich Code

The quixotic quest to read meaning in the patterns of a bizarre manuscript that has bedeviled scholars for years

http://bit.ly/15h5NWu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Smart money probably IS on hoax, but it's an awful lot of effort for one of those.

Date: 2013-04-28 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prezzey.livejournal.com
I wrote an article about it a while back, but it was in Hungarian. Well, Google Translate can try... (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=hu&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyest.hu%2Fhirek%2Falkimia-titok-hamisitas-a-megfejtetlen-voynich-kodexrol) Emphasis on "try" though :DDD

Probably my favorite theory is that the manuscript was originally a concultures/worldbuilding thing. The fake plants are telling :]

Date: 2013-04-28 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prezzey.livejournal.com
oh BTW just one more thing re the article - the usual metrics I've seen quoted in favor of the manuscript containing language-like information are in fact unsuitable for that purpose. (I have a little survey of the issue (http://www.nytud.hu/szakcsoport/huszeves/kotet/tlp20_takacs.pdf). In English :] IIRC it doesn't mention the Voynich manuscript, but it does mention other famous unsolved mysteries.) Looking forward to Rugg's book chapter.
Edited Date: 2013-04-28 02:58 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-04-28 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ksol1460.livejournal.com
Our Multiple Code icon is made to sort of suggest the V. Manuscript.

[livejournal.com profile] ihcoyc has written a ton of stuff about it.

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