Re: Hello!

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"diane.cousteau" wrote:
 
> Hello everyone!
>             I am relatively new to the list and would like to get a few
> things cleared up: I don't understand EVA! Can someone tell me how to
> translate Voynich into EVA?

Là, c'est un bon commencement:

http://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html

The Voynich "letters", or rather, what we count as letters,
are there, each as a small gif, each with its counterpart
in five systems:  Bennett, FSG (First Transcription Group),
Currier, Frogguy, EVA.

For more:

http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/eva.htm

But you'll have to download a largish image  (about 100K).

The general principle is: EVA is Frogguy made pronounceable
(eg EVA qotedy is Frogguy 4oqpc89) and Frogguy is as close
a picture of what Voynich letters look like using the Roman
alphabet, digits, and punctuation marks (so that Frogguy
4oqpcdy, 8aii89, etc. look quite like what they are in
the manuscript).



>             Also, where can I find page 1? 

Good question. Isn't that one of the lost pages?

> Has there been an analysis of the ink yet?

Ça, c'est justement la bouteille à l'encre! (Pun
intended). Incredibly, unbelievably, shockingly: NO!
And since the thing is on vellum, you'd think a 
DNA analysis of the skins it was written on might
throw some light on its origin. Eh bien, là non
plus. Rien. Nib d'analyse. As if you'd discovered
a frozen pterodactyl and everybody just ignored it.
(Autant que j'arrête là, sinon je vais me fâcher
tout rouge).