Re: VMs: Newbold Translation

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Hi, Matthew.
> It
> might help me understand how it is possible to
> interpret coherent text from a nonsense method.

	Been there, done that, and done it and done it 
and done it...   If you have a sufficiently flexible 
method, as Newbold did, then you can read anything 
into anything.  The "Bible Code" books of some years
ago were an example of this sort of thing that made it 
onto the bestseller lists.  

	Do you know about the Phaistos Disk?  If so, 
visit 
http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm
for some highly entertaining examples of what I said
in the last paragraph.  If not, visit
http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/phaistos/index.html
to find out about the Phaistos Disk and then follow 
the "Phaistos Disk Decipherment Update" link at the
end.  

Dennis


> 
> Perhaps it would be an interesting experiment to use
> some of the more thoroughly worked-out 'translation'
> methods of the Voynich manuscript on Seraphinianus,
> which we _know_ to be nonsense, to see if we can get
> coherent text from that.
> 
> MDP
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