Re: VMs: part of Vms deciphered?

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Zitat von adrian@xxxxxx:

>> 
> I think I may have partially deciphered Voynich manuscript and I would like
> to direct you to my web page containing this solution.

Hi Adrian,

I had a look at your website.

"I was excited. The text made sense."

Well, that seems to me to be a bit overly optimistic.

I guess you fell for the old trap of discarding some information from the 
manuscript, assuming it's just there to deceive (in your case, upper and lower 
letter parts), thereby introducing degrees of freedom. From a reduced set of 
common letters/sounds, you were then able to compose some words.

Assuming english words in a phonetic spelling introduces even more degrees of 
freedom, so no wonder you found some matches (and still, "kllrcl" doesn't sound 
much like "circle").

But ultimately, I feel your text simply lacks grammar, internal structure and 
content -- it's just a list of random words with similar sounds (which creates 
the impression of a wailing song, but is of course simply the result of your 
filtering).

Nevertheless, I find both of your basic ideas -- it's just standard letters 
masked, and it could be a phonetic transcription of a common European language -
- very intriguing, and worthwhile to pursue. Though IMHO you're not there yet, 
I feel you might be on the right track. Thanks for sharing the ideas in any 
case,

Greets,

   Elmar


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