30-10-2025, 09:24 AM
(30-10-2025, 06:55 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It would be stupid for anyone to write anything directly from head to vellum.
Under the meaningless text / hoax / artificial construction hypothesis it would not be entirely stupid. If the hoaxers had a method of generating meaningless text that they could apply with fluency then there would be no need to first put it on paper.
The manuscript is a deception. The authors intended that no-one should ever be able to read the manuscript. And so long as they were careful to give the text a semblance of genuineness, that it was a product from some distant undiscovered land, fraudulently created to sell on the market for a profit, there would be no need for any grammatical correctness, nor for any delay to first trial-write it all on paper. They could just write the words out as they came.