[blam]

GGG Ping.

Tujia People

[devane617]

Problem solved.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

TO SERVE MAN BETTER

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

All your base are belong to us! /end translation

[JRios1968]

[Revolting cat!]

Translation:

[Diogenesis]

Another wonderful post.

Thank you for taking the time to share it, blam.

[infool7]

It says “Be sure to drink more Ovaltine.”

[muawiyah]

That's a good one Blam. You're testing me aren't you.

Before the Chinese regularized their character sets about 250 BC (and sporadically before that) there would undoubtedly have been a number of others that stood outside the mainstream of characters.

That would explain the smaller characters next to the big characters ~ just someone "updating" the book.

They re-defined their characters and changed their shapes in AD sometime and you'd have something similar going on so there should be old "books" around showing the same phenomenon but with dramatically different characters.

Looking at these they remind me a lot of what I call "kitchen Chinese" characters. They are used by uneducated or poorly educated people who work in food marketing or restaurants to indicate what's on the menu. That would date this stuff back to the third century BCE at least.

This is a "word book" by appearance, if not provably by content "yet", so the reason they can't read the "language" is that it's not in a "language" ~ some of the newer small characters probably "discuss" the older characters though ~ that's why they are calling them "footnotes".

This is a tremendous discovery. Unfortunately almost all the records written in that oldest formal Chinese character set were destroyed by various crazy emperors and invaders.

The dictionary outlives the civilization ~ as usual.

I'm going to see if they have more pages of this stuff on the net and see what it really says. May have to stand on my head while servants beat the bottoms of my feet with bamboo poles to get in to the essence of it though.

[JACKRUSSELL]

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[Renfield]

I have found a translation. Here it is:

[Greg F]

We the Zarg write this before we begin our intersteller journey. Ling Pin having discovered the secret of superluminal transportation will have the honor of initiating the launch sequence. The mechanism to achieve superluminal transport is described in the following pages . . .

And there, sadly, the scroll ends.

Translation services provided by Beavis, Inc.

[Quix]

Thanks.

Interesting.

[null and void]

Great.

Now the Chinese will claim to have invented the Voynich Manuscript...