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re: Voynich Manuscript finally decoded
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:00 pm to crap4brain
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:00 pm to crap4brain
So this dude cracked it in two weeks? And it’s about abortion???? No freaking way! What a troll! 
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Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:09 pm to Tbonepatron
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I mean, it’s cool and everything, but it’s not likely anything of substance. Just some old baw writing in secret code. I’m more interested in the antikythera mechanism. How something like that could be made BC and the technology not realized again for 1500 years is mind boggling.
I'll always believe the voynich manuscript is just a hoax. The antikythera mechanism and the stone cutting in Egypt, and a lot of things they're finding lately are really mind bottling.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:15 pm to crap4brain
So if im reading that link right, and I like to think that I am, a non-OT baller somehow had his rantings survive the test of time to be translated by someone fluent in baw?
Link says its written in proto-romance, as in, it pre-dates the romance languages and was the language of the commoners which was seldom written down as all written texts were done in Latin, which was the language of royalty.
If you remember you're braveheart, the snotty guy with the princess tries to speak latin in front of Wallace and laughs because he knows savages cant speak latin. then he gets owned.
Moreover, it was super expensive to write stuff down back in the days before gutenberg's printing press. So to write something down in what amounts to slang must have been very very rare. This is pretty damn cool.
Link says its written in proto-romance, as in, it pre-dates the romance languages and was the language of the commoners which was seldom written down as all written texts were done in Latin, which was the language of royalty.
If you remember you're braveheart, the snotty guy with the princess tries to speak latin in front of Wallace and laughs because he knows savages cant speak latin. then he gets owned.
Moreover, it was super expensive to write stuff down back in the days before gutenberg's printing press. So to write something down in what amounts to slang must have been very very rare. This is pretty damn cool.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:24 pm to Sasquatch Smash
i went back and forth on the -ly placement 
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:30 pm to crap4brain
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He discovered that the manuscript contains information on herbal remedies, therapeutic bathing and astrological readings about sex, matters of the female mind and parenting.
Cosmo. The guy deciphered the medieval version of Cosmo.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:34 pm to Tbonepatron
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Just some old baw writing in secret code.
I don't think it was secret code, it was just one of the Romance languages that didn't survive.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:56 pm to crap4brain
There's been a lot of people who've claimed to decode it and it hasn't been true. This dude does it in 2 weeks? Check back in a few weeks and see if it's actually decoded.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:57 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Ok guys, someone summarize it.
From what I read, he hasn't fully translated it; he just figured out how to translate it.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 3:59 pm to crap4brain
Posted on 5/15/19 at 4:32 pm to roguetiger15
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the first written document of some poor guy's wife bitching at him passive aggressively
SIAP
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The manuscript is 200 pages.
Not long enough.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 4:33 pm to eScott
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I'll always believe the voynich manuscript is just a hoax.
I just don't see anybody spending that much money for a hoax that wouldn't be found out until hundreds of years later.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 4:43 pm to MountainTiger
If it were older I could see it as ginuine, and the person who made it could have passed it off as an ancient manuscript in the 1400s and profited off of it.
Watch a few episodes of pawn stars and you'll see some expensive hoaxes.
Watch a few episodes of pawn stars and you'll see some expensive hoaxes.
This post was edited on 5/15/19 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:22 pm to eScott
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Watch a few episodes of pawn stars and you'll see some expensive hoaxes.
"A buddy of mine is an expert in proto-romance languages. You mind if I have him come down here and check this out?"
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:33 pm to eScott
quote:Mind ‘bottling’?
The antikythera mechanism and the stone cutting in Egypt, and a lot of things they're finding lately are really mind bottling.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:38 pm to crap4brain
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Linguistics
aka Aryan...
We have forgotten who we are...
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:41 pm to mdomingue
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The manuscript is 200 pages.
Oh...so it's a GOT slam-thread from the movie board.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:44 pm to eScott
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If it were older I could see it as ginuine, and the person who made it could have passed it off as an ancient manuscript in the 1400s and profited off of it.
The person that created it was already filthy rich. In any case, it's a moot point since we now know it wasn't a fake.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:45 pm to crap4brain
Drink your ovaltine
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:56 pm to theunknownknight
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Vertical thinking obviously didn’t cut it
Linear thinking; we lateral thinkers find it really tiresome, with our hula-hoops and our Voynich Manuscripts.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 6:47 pm to UnitedFruitCompany
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Moreover, it was super expensive to write stuff down back in the days before gutenberg's printing press. So to write something down in what amounts to slang must have been very very rare.
Makes total sense why the manuscript's creator would decide to do it like that, though. If being an herbalist/healer was his/her livelihood - You would want to protect that knowledge. You'd be shooting your income in the foot if somebody (who happened to be literate
) found it. Also - not sure if this would apply at the time it was written, but - You wouldn't want it to be used against you as evidence of witchcraft.
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