Is the Voynich Manuscript the biggest fuck you to history? Who did it and why? Why was it in the hands of so many important people before being found by some literally who? What do you think its words mean?
Is the Voynich Manuscript the biggest fuck you to history? Who did it and why...
Luis Barnes
Jackson Ross
probably some autist, conlanging and worldbuilding is one of their favorite pastimes today
Kayden Sanders
>conlanging and worldbuilding is one of their favorite pastimes
Just observe the Mexican tripfag writing in all caps, he does this all day. He goes way out of his way to construct neologisms. Pure sperg.
Bentley Morales
To me it seems almost certain that it's the work of someone with a mental illness but also with knowledge of medicine and botany. It's much too complex to be a prank and it's too systematic to be a hoax.
Gavin Nelson
Do you think Tolkien had a mental illness too
Liam Martin
Tolkien made a very concerted effort to explain his invented languages, the author of this does not (as far as we know). Also Tolkien was a philologist and applied very well known rules to his languages while the VM is unlike any language we're aware of and the best we can say is that it's not random and has some sort of a ruleset
Aaron Fisher
Well its already decoded now. Its just a heavily abbreviated medical knowledge on females.
Christian Bell
that's a meme
Jeremiah Reed
that """explanation""" was debunked like 2 days after it was announced
Nathaniel Anderson
Where does it say its been debunked?
James Taylor
Jonathan Scott
Nowhere really. Some historians got buttmad because the guy who cracked it isn't a professional historian or a linguist, and in the midst of their anal tantrum they weren't even able to explain what's actually wrong with his explanation.
Academia in humanities is a complete and utter joke.
Justin Ross
>The idea that the book is a medical treatise on women's health, however, might turn out to be correct. But that wasn't Gibbs' discovery. Many scholars and amateur sleuths had already reached that conclusion, using the same evidence that Gibbs did
Yeah, it hasn't been debunked. What's probably been discredited is that he reached this conclusion on his own. It might be true, but its already a known conclusion/theory others have claimed in the past.
Brody Turner
their answer is that his "solution" doesn't result in meaningful Latin. He can instantly BTFO them by posting at least a few translated pages but he hasn't
David Smith
>invent language like tolkien
>create story
>die
>never left a translation
>someone finds it
is that or a troll
Levi Ramirez
right, so what exactly did he discover?
Landon Anderson
The latin abbreviation thing has been debunked, and his ability to decipher the thing.
Noah Barnes
There was no debunking of that sort. It was just another person personally objecting to it.
Benjamin Ortiz
>240 page manuscript with walls of text, 8000 unique words, and an average word length similar to most european languages
>lol it's just latin abbreviations bro
Logan Cruz
>There was no debunking of that sort
so where's his translation?
Christian Peterson
Don't forget
>poured over by specialists in medieval latin who are obviously familiar with medieval latin abbreviations
Jacob Young
Somewhere on the internet?
Levi Ward
Further proof that academics are literal retards.
Noah Flores
yeah presumably next to Bigfoot mockups
Jayden Russell
Strawmans don't help your "debunked" argument
Nicholas Jackson
Where on the internet?
Luis Sullivan
there is no argument because there is no translation. I could tweet that Stephen Hawking's theories are bullshit and it wouldn't be an argument because I have nothing to back it up
Zachary Cox
So you're saying Stephen Hawkings theories are bullshit because you don't have translations?
William Reyes
no I'm saying if you claim you deciphered something and don't post proof you're just another fart in the wind
Gavin Hill
But you/someone already posted a "debunked" article. If you read that article, surely you will find the subject of your inquiry.
If not that, there's always Google.com
Sebastian Reed
@3446761
I've been pretty generous with my (You)s because I'm bored at work but I've reached my limit, you'd have to find another donor
Jeremiah Myers
Are you retarded or something? It's not on google because it's not on the internet, because he's only released two lines of translation to the public.
Jonathan Peterson
some people will believe just about anything i guess, take this thread to /x/ next time