I love medievalist ennui about Voynich manuscript "breakthroughs"pic.twitter.com/xtnJ8FMiZ1
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> A deep sigh & awareness that it will inevitably be nonsense & fatally flawed—could waste life debunking such stuff, just not worth it? :)
we wouldn't expect zoologists to debunk every mermaid story either, however coherent they might seem to nonspecialists.
That's a very good analogy. The coherent ones are the ones you need to debunk. And yes, I do that on here. But I have no dog in this fight.
Problem is, with Arthur at least, that around 80%+ *seem* coherent to causal glance :-/ There's often fundamental methodological issues >
> that just aren't visible as authors themselves aren't aware of them; likewise, number who mangle linguistic elements without realising…!
I cannot judge Gibbs' claims, but their very mundanity (his solution is underwhelming) is a plus. No Mayans or aliens.
No aliens is always a plus ;)
So the aliens are still in with a shot? (Maybe sensible ones who like baths if they feel a bit poorly?)
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