Bristol academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text

PHYS ^ | 15may19 | by University of Bristol

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript-has-finally-been-decoded/

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/voynich-manuscript-code-0010859

[bgill]

The woman with the bottle is telling the kids to be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

[Red Badger]

[dp0622]

The show wasn’t hilarious in an Odd Couple or Honeymooners kind of way, but A LOT of individual scenes are just HYSTERICAL!! :)

And though Larry David is hard left, he mostly kept that out of the series.

Even had Giuliani on it when he won for mayor.

“I’M NOT GAY!! not that there’s anything wrong with that”

LOL He’s admitting that many who “support’ gay rights usually don’t mean it when push comes to shove.

No pun intended :)

[Admin Moderator]

Please quit your abuse of the news forum with chat material.

[G Larry]

Call me when they figure out what it said.

I assume it was to convey "prohibited" Christian messages.

[Track9]

What a great thing to read about. Thanks for posting.

[dangus]

Drink more Bosco?

[sparklite2]

Wow. Never thought I’d live to see the day.

[sparklite2]

Thanks to this amazing discovery, the Page in post #9 can new be translated.  It was written by Sotworthy Seeburg, as can be seen where he autographed it on the right side of the illustration.  The following is a direct translation, enhanced with minimal punctuation for sentence separation.

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now this aint no shit. you know the hot tub bath in the vestal virgin locker room?

well me and Jarrell Datson snuck up into the overhead plumbing and stuffed in a big basket of them blue pellets the nuns use to keep the water in the latrines blue so they dont have to scrub them so much. 

incoming hot water went through the basket, see the illustration, and dissolved the pellets all at once. you can see the blue water coming out in the accompanying drawing.  it was hilarious.  if smurfs havent been invented yet then we made the first ones.

if anyone ever finds out, we are dead meat.

[SunkenCiv]

"I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code, followed by a sense of disbelief and excitement when I realised the magnitude of the achievement, both in terms of its linguistic importance and the revelations about the origin and content of the manuscript."

If he had a little humility, he'd be perfect. :^) Thanks grey_whiskers.

[shotgun]

“drink more Ovaltine”

[grey_whiskers]

This is what they had for Instagram in the 1500s.

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[dfwgator]

A crummy commercial?

[SunkenCiv]

What a huge relief, the VM has driven a lot of people around the bend and over the edge and a bunch of other metaphors.

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[SteveH]

this is the well-known voynich hot tub time machine

[rdl6989]

It includes diphthong, triphthongs, quadriphthongs and even quintiphthongs.....

Well there you go.