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Voynich manuscript decoded(?); “She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.”
Topic Started: Jan 30 2018, 04:42 PM (248 Views)
Sayornis
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Yes, again.

Cryptanalysts, using artificial intelligence and Google Translate, claim to have found that the Voynich manuscript is in anagrammed Hebrew. It begins: “She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.”

I must say I'm skeptical, given that Google Translate is not always reliable with normal input, let alone whatever semi-coherent "Hebrew" they found from anagramming the text. It's also not that hard to find meaningful anagrams when you have enough letters to work with, especially if you allow them to be in any language. Apparently the supposedly Hebrew sentence isn't even grammatical or coherent.

And here is a critical reply from a Voynich researcher.
The Library is open. (Now under new management!)
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Aug 19 2016, 07:42 PM
As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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Yeah...
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"Someone decoded the Voynich Manuscript!" is classic clickbait among linguists and cryptographers.
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I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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Man, I expected it to be questionable, but didn't expect us to have stooped to google translate.
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