This is a rebuttal to the previous statement of a language expert from the University of Bristol itself.
As reported, a few days ago, a linguist at the University of Bristol announced that he had cracked the code inside the “Voynich Manuscript” – the book that has been dubbed the greatest mystery of all time. , has “tortured” even the most talented minds of mankind.
The person who deciphered the code was Dr. Gerard Cheshire. He suggested that the manuscript was written in a long-lost language called proto-Romance . And by studying the symbols of the language, he was able to determine what the contents of the book were.
A page of the Voynich manuscript.
But recently, the University of Bristol published a statement saying the university had nothing to do with the Cheshire study, after the study was opposed by some scientists, even though it was published in the journal The only prestige is Romance.
Critics say proto-Romance is a historically non-existent language, and Cheshire’s theories make almost no sense. As Lisa Fagin David – executive director of the American Academy of Medieval Languages shared: “Proto-Romance is not real. This is just a subjective, meaningless assumption.”
“I tried the way Cheshire did. But when I applied Roman letters to solve it, everything became meaningless. It was not the right way to do it.”
Lisa David’s tweet.
Cheshire defends its position, arguing that signs follow the same rules as letters, and that critics simply “can’t get rid of prejudice, even when there is evidence”.
It is not clear who is right and who is wrong. But in the face of such controversy, the University of Bristol said it was aware of concerns about the legitimacy of the study, and therefore “decided to temporarily remove it from its site for verification”.
It is known that the content of the Voynich text is said to contain codes, incantations, political messages, even alien languages. Experts previously believed it was written in the mid-15th century, in a language spoken by Catholics and Romans.