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• RE: What initially sparked your interest in Voynich research?

  bi3mw > 26-04-2023, 06:49 PM

  (26-04-2023, 06:40 PM)zobowiazanie Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Some time ago I even ordered a Zieler calligraphy set to try and write some Voynichese myself

  
  I think your calligraphy is perfectly fine. My attempts with a Rotring ( wide nib ) don't look as accurate.

• RE: What initially sparked your interest in Voynich research?

  Koen G > 26-04-2023, 07:33 PM

  (26-04-2023, 06:40 PM)zobowiazanie Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I also must confess that I have a feeling of dread that Voynichese was constructed with the use of a large, proprietary dictionary that hasn't surfaced yet.

  
  Yeah, this is one of the scenarios (together with "it's nonsense") where we would never be able to solve the thing, we would forever remain uncertain.
  
  What neither of the above would explain though, is why Voynichese is as it is. Why does the glyph set consist of numerals, ligatures, abbreviation symbols and the like? Why the "curve-line" situation? The fact that the system is so peculiar but consistent (with some drift across scribes) seems to suggest that there is some system doing something. If one were to just make up words for a wordlist, the result might look a lot more like Hildegard's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The use of a codebook makes the use of the weird system (positional rigidity etc) and the use of a weird script superfluous.
  
  That doesn't prove anything of course. But to me it feels like the script and the "system" work together to accomplish some goal, whatever that may be.
  
  Your Voynich script is certainly better than mine will ever be

• RE: What initially sparked your interest in Voynich research?

  davidjackson > 01-05-2023, 07:59 AM

  (23-04-2023, 10:50 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.David, somehow your reply is giving me chat gpt vibes :p Maybe it's the implausible premise that you encounterd Curse in the wild.

  
  
  As AI language models continue to improve, it may become increasingly difficult to distinguish between human-generated text and AI-generated text. However, for now, a careful analysis of the content, context, and style of a given text can sometimes reveal clues that suggest it was generated by an AI like ChatGPT. In many cases, the text generated by ChatGPT can be quite convincing and difficult to distinguish from text written by a human. However, there are instances where the output may contain inaccuracies, inconsistencies, or lack context, which could make it easier to identify as being generated by an AI model.

• RE: What initially sparked your interest in Voynich research?

  Koen G > 01-05-2023, 11:02 AM

  Now you're just doing it on purpose :p
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