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The combination of the Voynich Manuscript's history of translation claims, taken together with the origin of this work ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3326436/I... ), leads me to view this with at least something of an air of caution.
Here's a PDF for anyone who wants to take a stab :-) http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/pdfgen/exportPDF.php?bibid=2...
Someone should build a web plataform to allow to decode it using crowdsourcing ..
(Or were you being silly :P)
I wish I knew more about linguistics to understand his this work further. Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution.
Anecdotal experience of mine is that there's a trend for some academics (at least in astronomy) to put everything on their personal site. It makes for more consistent "personal branding", as your web presence isn't moved every 2-3 years as you move from postdoc to postdoc to faculty position.
I wish I knew more about linguistics to understand his this work further. Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution.
> Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution. Anecdotal experience of mine is that there's a trend for some academics (at least in astronomy) to put everything on their personal site. It makes for more consistent "personal branding", as your web presence isn't moved every 2-3 years as you move from postdoc to postdoc to faculty position.
They didn't really have a good answer for whether that e-mail would stick around after I graduated. Or whether access to that account would be available forever, or whether it would be free.
I didn't even bother asking why anyone would want an ugly e-mail address like pxl014000@utdallas.edu to be their official formal means of communication.
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> Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution. Anecdotal experience of mine is that there's a trend for some academics (at least in astronomy) to put everything on their personal site. It makes for more consistent "personal branding", as your web presence isn't moved every 2-3 years as you move from postdoc to postdoc to faculty position.
It reminds me of attending freshman orientation. It was suggested to us that we use our university e-mail address for all professional communication. They didn't really have a good answer for whether that e-mail would stick around after I graduated. Or whether access to that account would be available forever, or whether it would be free. I didn't even bother asking why anyone would want an ugly e-mail address like p…
Yeah, that can be an issue. It seems to be pretty common now for universities to let folks keep their email addresses (since they often outsource the addresses to google).
> I didn't even bother asking why anyone would want an ugly e-mail address like pxl014000@utdallas.edu to be their official formal means of communication.
Very true. Though, often one can set up an email alias (assuming you don't have a name that's too common!).
The combination of the Voynich Manuscript's history of translation claims, taken together with the origin of this work ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3326436/I... ), leads me to view this with at least something of an air of caution.
I wish I knew more about linguistics to understand his this work further. Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution.
Here's a video where the author describes the work in the paper: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fpZD_3D8_WQ Very accessible.
Indeed, I wish that more academics made the effort to create such accessible summaries of their work.
Jumped the shark here -
"He also speculates that the reason this work is written in a language never seen before was that it was made by a small group of people who belonged to a culture that didn’t have a written form."
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Someone should build a web plataform to allow to decode it using crowdsourcing ..
Crowdsourcing? Researchers already collaborate on works like this, so all we would get are unexperienced looky-loos and trolls. (Or were you being silly :P)
Why can't people just realise humour is not unique to one's own time period and culture. Jumped the shark here - "He also speculates that the reason this work is written in a language never seen before was that it was made by a small group of people who belonged to a culture that didn’t have a written form."
This discovery excites me because the person also mentions that it has Caucasian characters in the manuscript. So maybe it was written by my ancestors.