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The Voynich Manuscript May Be a Hoax (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Earlier statistical analysis had shown it had some definite similarities to a real human language, it's not just gibberish or an amateur hoax. I have to say I'm a little bit sad that it seems like it's turning out it was just sophisticated gibberish.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's still completely up in the air, and as I said above: paradoxical. Voynichese doesn't behave like any known language, and has several problems besides just entropy. On the other hand it obeys Zipf's Law, and topic analysis indicates the content of the writing varies with the subject matter of the pages, like a real language would.