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I found this scholarly article to be a concise summary of many interesting points: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf http://www.isi.edu/

by xk_id 13y ago

I found this scholarly article to be a concise summary of many interesting points: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf ("What we know about the Voynich manuscript" by Reddy S. and Knight K.).

floobynewb 13y ago
thank you
acqq 13y ago
And I really believe this is the simplest and exact solution: Rugg (2004) claims that words might have been generated using a ‘Cardan Grille’ – a way to deterministically generate words from a table of morphemes. (Gordon Rugg. 2004. The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Scientific American Magazine.) If you know there was a reasonably fast way to produce the content which has exactly observed properties, why searching for some more complicated explanation?
- DanBC 13y ago
  > why searching for some more complicated explanation? But why generate all that text using a cardan grille?
  - acqq 13y ago
    To sell a book as something extraordinary.