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So, what's six hundred years old, totally indecipherable, and extremely neat regardless?

Why, this is, of course.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com
Mere mortals were not meant to know the secrets of the Voynich Manuscript.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gothpanda.livejournal.com
Clearly it's Atlantean.

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Date: 2007-11-22 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] camilla-anna.livejournal.com
nah. Elvish.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neobitch.livejournal.com
I love this thing. You can even download the script font here, amongst other places.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gothpanda.livejournal.com
Neeeeeeat. The theories of authorship made my brain hurt though.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Nice. Very nice.

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Date: 2007-11-21 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vagabond27.livejournal.com
eeeeeee, makes my skin crawl...
in the good, dirty way.

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Date: 2007-11-21 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com
And now we know the inspiration for teh Golden Compass...

or maybe the Doctor just lost the hard drive to the chameleon circuit

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Date: 2007-11-22 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] opaqueplanet.livejournal.com
psh. Linear A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A) did it first.

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Date: 2007-11-22 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbowden.livejournal.com
It's not a crypt, it's a cipher, which can't be broken like crypto. Ciphers are pretty much unbreakable by definition; you either know the cipher code, or you don't.

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Date: 2007-11-22 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Hence the word "indecipherable", perhaps?

It's still cool.

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Date: 2007-11-22 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jsbowden.livejournal.com
It is cool, and yes, I noted that you used the appropriate word in question to describe it, but the article talked about crypto folks across the centuries trying to break it like it was a code, and that just seemed silly.

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Date: 2007-11-22 03:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jerril
That is, of course, assuming it's anything at all other than an elaborate hoax. There's been some statistical analysis that suggests it's largely junk text - of course, there's been some statistical analysis that suggests it contains the secrets of the universe. Lies, damn lies, and statistics after all :D

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Date: 2007-11-22 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sivi-volk.livejournal.com
The font/alphabet itself still reminds me of an arabicized or east turkic/sino-tibetan version of glagolitic.

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Date: 2007-11-22 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com
...that is an incredibly cool sentence.

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Date: 2007-11-23 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
Except for that last bit, I thought you were going to link to the Bible.

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Date: 2007-11-23 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
The bible is neither six hundred years old nor indecipherable.

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