Re: SciAm: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

2004-06-29 Thread Jim Dixon
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > characters of Voynichese into Roman letters. An example from folio 78R of > the manuscript reads: qokedy qokedy dal qokedy qokedy. This degree of > repetition is not found in any known language. Arabic (my transliteration of what I was taught, may actu

SciAm: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

2004-06-28 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Scientific American: June 21, 2004 The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript New analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish By Gordon Rugg In 1912 Wilf