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Book Discussion Voynich Manuscript Cracked?

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David Wilson-Steer

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I ran across an article on the researchgate website by one Fletcher Crowe and dated November '22, claiming to have cracked the Voynich Manuscript. The basic claim is that the language is a somewhat encrypted form of Arabic treating of Cathar themes. The folks on the "voynich ninja" site savage Crowe's efforts. Has anyone else dipped into the matter? The 'teens of the 21st century seemed to have a "translation" of the manuscript every couple of years, all pretty quickly discounted.
The last I heard was that it had been found to be a very old form of Saxon or early English and that it seemed to be a marriage manual written for some aristocratic lady. Hence all the pictures of naked ladies. Maybe it is a hoax, like the Hitler diaries.
 

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The last I heard was that it had been found to be a very old form of Saxon or early English and that it seemed to be a marriage manual written for some aristocratic lady. Hence all the pictures of naked ladies. Maybe it is a hoax, like the Hitler diaries.
Add another language to the proto-Romance, Turkish, Arabic list, eh?

Naked wimmins? I recall only odd odd odd botanical illustrations. If it's a marriage manual, it's about how to cook kraut.
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How old they are is irrelevant. How thin or thick skinned anyone is, is irrelevant. How high his IQ is, is irrelevant.

It's ignorant and bigoted and completely unnecessary.

The points can be made w/o using terms that are insulting to others who are different.
Touched a nerve I see. What both of you need are some herbal remedies from the Voynitch volume! I guess. That's the problem we still can't read it, much less hunt up the vegetable simples and such like. Back to the book, sez I.
 
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From what I recently saw the person who claimed to have decrypted it, said it was in Gealic or an old form of it. The newer translated version said something along the lines of women using their moon blood to grow plants or even a new life. That's why it has so many pictures of naked women and such, its a book for women about women.
 

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To understand i think you must be familiar with trithemius steganographica and then understand early flemish with a huge amount of loan words.
 
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