RE: VMs: VMS not Welsh? oh well....

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Gillogly wrote:
> That's a fair cop.  I couldn't find my xerox of Strong's article
> in my filing cabinet, so I found what I could in a few
> minutes on
> the web.  I didn't see the whole thing anywhere in the
> few minutes
> I looked.

I've had these posted on baconbooks.net for almost two years I
think, at http://www.baconbooks.net/Voynich/voynich.htm, in a PDF
file flagged "Strong's Notes".  (PDF is probably why search
engines haven't picked it up.)  Sorry the hidden section isn't
active, I'm moving and reorganizing this section, but the notes
have been available.

> > It would take a very special mind to make something
> like this up.
>
> The same could be said of a lot of the attempted solutions,
> including Newbold.  Fact is, as you point out, there
> *are* a lot of very special minds out there!  A lot of them
> occupy themselves with "decrypting" things.

At last!  Now I know my place in this world, and I am indeed VERY
SPECIAL! :-0  Point well taken however.  It's jus that I can't
find any other sign of *absurdity* in Strong's other
accomplishments, and all personal reports of his character point
to a person extremely conservative and adherent to the rules.
Nothing in his make-up seemed to point to a "headline grabber" or
any other motivation other than genuine curiosity.

> What other English writers used Anthony's dialect, as exhibited
> in Strong's decryptions?  Is this also how Anthony's other works
> look?  This isn't intended as a disingenously subtle remark: I'm
> not a linguist, and don't pretend to know the range of
> historical
> English dialects.

I'm not a linguist either, but my impression of Anthony's writings
was of a person literate, but not literate to a college level, and
given to the phrases of his local region, namely Yorke.  Take for
instance this passage, not anything like Roger's writing:

"Spera as euclide doth wrytt is a thyng rownd and solide
the qwych is discribed by the...for the more that the mone dothe
go in to
the opposite off the sone the more lyght she takes as doth apere
by this
fygure.  Here Endithe the spere Introductory to astronomy with the
histories
off the constellationes and ymages off hewen both fygured and
emargyned the
names off the autentyke authores the longytud and latytud off
certayne
prouynces In Europe aphrice and asia the mowynge off the .x.
hewenes and
the ymaginationes off all the circles as is afore expresed the
whiche is newly
translayt surthe off latyne in to yngliche By anthony askham
scoler and
studient off the vniuersite off cambrige In the gere off oure lord
god a
thowsand .v. hundrethe and xxvij."

Instead of the scholarly use of Zodiac names, he lists them as
such, in the common English, virgen for Virgo, Fysshes for Pisces,
etc.  It's the lack of a scholarly style in his books and the
dependence on common English vernacular that sets him apart from
his brother, primarily:

1. the grete bere
2. the lesse bere
3. the serpent or dragon
4. the arctophilax or bootes
5. crowne
6. hercules
7. lyra
8. swane
9. cepheus
10. cassiopea
11. andromeda
12. perseus
13. auriga or the carta
14. Ophiulcus or serpentarius
15. dart or shafte
16. Egle
17. delphyn
18. pegasse the horse
19. deltoton or the triangle
20. Rame
21. bull
22. geminj
23. crabe
24. lyon
25. virgen
26. scorpius and libra
27. sagyttary
28. capricorne
29. aquary
30. fysshes
31. gret whalle or monster off the see
32. flude eridanus
33. hare
34. orion
35. the gret dogge
36. the lesse dogge
37. shype
38. centaury
39. ara
40. hydra

GC

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