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Skimmed the article to see if it had been mentioned but from what I could see it wasn't. Stephen Bax, Professor in Applied Linguistics University of Bedfordshir

Skimmed the article to see if it had been mentioned but from what I could see it wasn't. Stephen Bax, Professor in Applied Linguistics University of Bedfordshire: Through analysis of a number of illustrations in the manuscript, including one constellation (Taurus) and seven plants, then drawing on European and Middle Eastern mediaeval manuscripts and contemporary nomenclature, the paper proposes the identification of a set of proper names in the Voynich text, giving a total of ten words made up of fourteen of the Voynich symbols and clusters. The resulting scheme is set out in Appendix 1 (page 56) of the paper. The aim of the paper is to attempt to lay the groundwork for an eventual full decoding and complete decipherment of this fascinating document. The evidence shows that the manuscript is not a hoax, and is probably an explanatory treatise on nature. The script was possibly devised to encode a previously unwritten language or dialect, perhaps by a small community which later died out or disappeared. The paper (PDF): http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-provisional-partial-decoding-BAX.pdf http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-p... The video, 47m-11s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZD_3D8_WQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZD_3D8_WQ

Nursie 10y ago
Yeah, this analysis is a few years out now, talking about fictional plants and untranslatability. Bax et al. fairly convincingly identified a couple of plants and made some inroads into identifying some of the sounds and symbols.
anotheryou 10y ago
I also hoped for an update on this one. He is quite convincing.
DonaldFisk 10y ago
http://ciphermysteries.com/2014/02/21/stephen-bax-voynich-manuscript http://ciphermysteries.com/2014/02/21/stephen-bax-voynich-ma... is critical of the approach taken by Stehen Bax.
- raverbashing 10y ago
  This critique seems harsh, maybe dismissive, but it has some merit (then again I don't know much about the VM) All the gallows pointing at the same letter is indeed something problematic and that the other video pointed in this thread come to the same conclusion (that is, they mean different things) His point 6 is addressed by the other video pointed in this page (basically the repeated letters should have an 'r' between them) Point 1/3 might be fair, 2 is just nitpicking, 7 might be an issue but then this is not looking at a picture of a plant, but rather a bad illustration
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- beevai142 10y ago
  Link to the rebuttal by Bax, for completeness: https://stephenbax.net/?p=275 https://stephenbax.net/?p=275
nkurz 10y ago
Bax's blog has some updates since then, but no major changes. The new "hot" theory seems to be that a Romani (Gypsy) origin to the text might explain some of the linguistic characteristics. Here's a October 2016 post that talks about this theory in the context of differentiating it from other explanations that Bax considers less plausible: https://stephenbax.net/?p=1807 https://stephenbax.net/?p=1807.

Nursie 10y ago

Yeah, this analysis is a few years out now, talking about fictional plants and untranslatability. Bax et al. fairly convincingly identified a couple of plants and made some inroads into identifying some of the sounds and symbols.

anotheryou 10y ago

I also hoped for an update on this one. He is quite convincing.

DonaldFisk 10y ago

http://ciphermysteries.com/2014/02/21/stephen-bax-voynich-manuscript http://ciphermysteries.com/2014/02/21/stephen-bax-voynich-ma... is critical of the approach taken by Stehen Bax.

raverbashing 10y ago
This critique seems harsh, maybe dismissive, but it has some merit (then again I don't know much about the VM) All the gallows pointing at the same letter is indeed something problematic and that the other video pointed in this thread come to the same conclusion (that is, they mean different things) His point 6 is addressed by the other video pointed in this page (basically the repeated letters should have an 'r' between them) Point 1/3 might be fair, 2 is just nitpicking, 7 might be an issue but then this is not looking at a picture of a plant, but rather a bad illustration
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beevai142 10y ago
Link to the rebuttal by Bax, for completeness: https://stephenbax.net/?p=275 https://stephenbax.net/?p=275

nkurz 10y ago

Bax's blog has some updates since then, but no major changes. The new "hot" theory seems to be that a Romani (Gypsy) origin to the text might explain some of the linguistic characteristics. Here's a October 2016 post that talks about this theory in the context of differentiating it from other explanations that Bax considers less plausible: https://stephenbax.net/?p=1807 https://stephenbax.net/?p=1807.