Sex tip #1... "GIVE IT WASH at least ONCE a year!"
The 'middle ages'... So romantic until you consider their hygiene habits... Pardon the pun.
Posted on 05/15/2019 8:37:05 PM PDT by ETL
ARSTECHNICA calling BS on this translation.
Screw ‘em. :^) I can’t get it to load here, I’ll have to view that one later.
Did you check out the post on Linguistic Forum in #18?
A professional linguist was dressing down Dr. Gerard Cheshire on his lack of professionalism in his paper.
Nothing more hilarious than linguists brawling with each other. Reminds me of one of Kissinger’s sayings, “academic politics are the most petty kind of politics, because the stakes are so low.” Anyway, link for the LF?
from 2017:
The Voynich Ninja > Voynich Research > News
Full Version: Proposed solution by phd student Gerard Cheshire
https://www.voynich.ninja/archive/index.php/thread-2175.html
Gerard Cheshire, Vulgar Latin, and the siren call of the polyglot…
by nickpelling
https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulgar-latin-siren-call-polyglot
from 2018:
https://sites.google.com/site/48questions48answers/home/Linguistic-missing-links
Oh, #18 in this thread, thanks for the link! [blush]
Oh, the danged page loaded directly, no fiddling was necessary. Anyway, I didn’t find that to be compelling, just the usual carping among linguists. The main critic, Lisa Fagin Davis, is also quoted in the article as having agreed that an Old Turkish solution was plausible.
Of course, I barely speak my own language, the only project I’ve got going is to find a translation I was working on from Anatolia, it’s gotta be around here somewhere...
Did you look on top of the refrigerator? I always leave mine there.
I just found it, now I've got to figure out what I did with my in-progress translation (it's only four characters, it's king's name though, the first two characters are "lugal", which is "king").
Banda (fierce)?
He decoded a phallic symbol?
? I guess I left it on top of both our refrigerators? ;^)
Doesn’t everyone have a Sumerian tablet on top of their refrigerator?
No. I’m guessing mine is under the fridge - with all of the other old crap under there.
Very clever.
I think it is the recipe for Soylent Green. “Now - new and improved with Blueberry Juice!”
I do keep a spare tablet in the junk drawer with the cork screws and church keys.
This fridge is so old, the service manual is in cuneiform. ;^)
I think the manual for the fridge I bought last year in in cuneiform.
At least it is as far as my understanding goes. They instructions read like Sumerian stereo instructions.
What would it take to convince scholars like Fagin Davis? She outlined her criteria in a follow-up tweet: “(1) sound first principles; (2) reproducible by others; (3) conformance to linguistic and codicological facts; (4) text that makes sense; (5) logical correspondence of text and illustration. No one has checked all of those boxes yet.”
Sex tip #1... "GIVE IT WASH at least ONCE a year!"
The 'middle ages'... So romantic until you consider their hygiene habits... Pardon the pun.
A. Old Norwegian icebox. The ice was placed in the drawer above the door.
B.Typical Victorian icebox highboy model.
The model is made out as a fine piece of oak furniture.
Note tin or zinc shelving and door lining.
C. An exclusive oak cabinet icebox that would be found in the well-to-do homes.
Note the fancy hardware and latches.
Ice goes in the left upper door.
This model probably has a pull-out drip tray.
Popular Culture
In the 1950s television show The Honeymooners, the Kramdens’ apartment featured an ice box to emphasize their financially strapped working class living conditions.
(By the 1950s most families used an electric refrigerator.)
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Icebox
:)
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