New Blog post: "Mysterious Steganography"- a Damning Observation

[MarcoP]

The difficulty is in the use of the word used in the letters: deciphering, rather than translating.
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For the letters to be referring to the voynich, you would have to postulate that these scholars recognised it to be in a code, not a foreign script.

Hi David,
I see no difficulty. Champollion is commonly credited for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and Ventris for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The word was, and still is, used to denote the interpretation of anything that is not easily understood.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses the verb about solving a [theological] doubt ("decifrare questo dubbio").
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses it about clearing-up misunderstandings ("discifrare gli equivoci").