"What? No unipthongs?"
Posted on 05/15/2019 5:12:44 AM PDT by vannrox
A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed—by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich manuscript.
Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks, using a combination of lateral thinking and ingenuity, to identify the language and writing system of the famously inscrutable document.
In his peer-reviewed paper, The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained, published in the journal Romance Studies, Cheshire describes how he successfully deciphered the manuscript's codex and, at the same time, revealed the only known example of proto-Romance language.
"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.
"What it reveals is even more amazing than the myths and fantasies it has generated. For example, the manuscript was compiled by Dominican nuns as a source of reference for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, who happens to have been great aunt to Catherine of Aragon. This shows the word 'palina' which is a rod for measuring the depth of water, sometimes called a stadia rod or ruler. The letter 'p' has been extended. Credit: Voynich manuscript
"It is also no exaggeration to say this work represents one of the most important developments to date in Romance linguistics. The manuscript is written in proto-Romance—ancestral to today's Romance languages including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Galician. The language used was ubiquitous in the Mediterranean during the Medieval period, but it was seldom written in official or important documents because Latin was the language of royalty, church and government. As a result, proto-Romance was lost from the record, until now."
Cheshire explains in linguistic terms what makes the manuscript so unusual:
"It uses an extinct language. Its alphabet is a combination of unfamiliar and more familiar symbols. It includes no dedicated punctuation marks, although some letters have symbol variants to indicate punctuation or phonetic accents. All of the letters are in lower case and there are no double consonants. It includes diphthong, triphthongs, quadriphthongs and even quintiphthongs for the abbreviation of phonetic components. It also includes some words and abbreviations in Latin." Vignette A illustrates the erupting volcano that prompted the rescue mission and the drawing of the map. It rose from the seabed to create a new island given the name Vulcanello, which later became joined to the island of Vulcano following another eruption in 1550. Vignette B depicts the volcano of Ischia, vignette C shows the islet of Castello Aragonese, and vignette D represents the island of Lipari. Each vignette includes a combination of naïvely drawn and somewhat stylized images along with annotations to explain and add detail. The other five vignettes describe further details of the story. Credit: Voynich manuscript
The next step is to use this knowledge to translate the entire manuscript and compile a lexicon, which Cheshire acknowledges will take some time and funding, as it comprises more than 200 pages.
"Now the language and writing system have been explained, the pages of the manuscript have been laid open for scholars to explore and reveal, for the first time, its true linguistic and informative content."
What about umlauts?
Doesnt work. Theyre either too deep and dont sprout or too shallow and they just jump up and run away.
Thats ridiculous. Who ever heard of a girl with 5 butts?
"What? No unipthongs?"
You bad...LOL!!!
“Isn’t that a little daring, Cletus?”
“Naw. I got my ball cap on.”
Eh.. that’s not too bad.
He is not saying “i’m the greatest” he is just expressing how excited he felt when he realized the magnitude of the discovery- which is pretty huge.
It'll be interesting to see if there's more such texts, unrecognized, in old archives, for example, in southern France (the old Kdm of Arelate, Provencal, Gascony), northern Italy, and the like. It may have been staring everyone in the face, even while the Voynich was getting everyone in a twist.
I plan to view later:
600 Year old Text Decoded - Voynich Manuscript Blown Wide Open by British Genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZUzjXgA0_I
and earlier on YouTube:
Feb 22, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6keMgLmFEk
March 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqr_S_Y5zk
Apr 18, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOGT43faBE
many more:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Voynich+Manuscript+site:youtube.com
and thanks Pontiac for posting this link over in the newer thread:
yo, here’s the newer thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3749612/posts
Dang!
I missed it by THAT ——>__________<-—— MUCH!.......................
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
We can clearly see the obvious depiction of a space elevator being used to whisk away naked women for human breeding experiments. There's no question then that these people had been visited by ancient astronauts who taught them the code as well.
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