Re: VMs: I was expecting comments to what these Germans did

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jona,

At 17:25 02/06/2005 -0700, Jona B Stulz wrote:
> I checked it out (honestly, I didn't kno how to navigate through the 
> topics)...you guys don't seem to be very impressed...mildely spoken.
> I was thinking about signing up. I am not a voynichologist - I am just 
> interested in the contents.
> Is there any other 'translation' attempt out there that would be worth 
> checking out without having to pay anything for it?

Without getting horribly technical, Voynichese superficially looks like it 
is a simplified language written in a simple substitution cipher, but one 
which reads like "baby-talk" - and this is why most attempted 
"translations" of the VMs read like baby-talk too.

FWIW, if the VMs is based on some kind of cipher-system, it is most likely 
a devious one carefully designed to look *as though it is a simple cipher* 
(but without actually being simple).

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.... 


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