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
Voynich solvers get the same treatment as people who propose a solution to old serial killers' identities (Jack the Ripper, Black Dahlia, Zodiac) -- the reviewers of their work are always advocates of some other solution that hasn't got anything but a cult following. I tried to watch that Viper YT vid, it's AWFUL. The narrator flaps for almost five minutes before getting to the actual subject, and that's about the same time I lost patience. Some of the othe vids had those reprehensible and stupid robotic narrations. I haven't watched this one yet, but note that it is from 2017.
So much for that voynich manuscript "solution" | News Today | YouTube | Published on Sep 10, 2017