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by ajuc 11y ago
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- acqq 11y agoThanks. Still, for me, if the text produced with the Cardan grille wouldn't have such statistics, that would be a proof for me that the "language" is real. That's what I hoped to find. If the Cardan grille generated text would pass the statistics too, I'd still more believe the text to be a kind of hoax. The game isn't "lets find which statistics Voynich passes" but "let's disprove the hypothesis it is a hoax" by finding a test which all claimed hoaxes schemes obviously fail.
- ajuc 11y ago1. Cardan grille was invented in 1550. Voynish manuscript is almost 100 year older by carbon dating 3. Why do you give hoax higher prior probability? EDIT: I was wrong about the possible distributions so there's no point 2.
- acqq 11y ago1. Technically, the velum seems to be older, we don't know when the manuscript is written. 3. Because nothing else "fits" with anything else we know of. When we find first text in an unknown language, typically it's some religious thing. The illustrations are at best "dream" constructs when not intentional attempt to make an "original" hoax. Otherwise, it's obvious that it's not something out of some non-western culture.