Posted on 02/23/2014 6:43:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Some extra.
PDF and a youtube video of his research.
Also, if anyone wants to see a digitalized copy of the actual thing, go here.
Maybe it is simply a book of plants and their medicinal/culinary uses?
I have a number of books on the subject of herbs, their medicinal and culinary uses and the benefits thereof-they are written in English, but the illustrations in several of them look very similar, and have the Latin name of the plant below the picture.
Or, to quote a Star Trek TNG episode about breaking a code-it could just be someone’s recipe for biscuits...
If so, then it is a very lengthy and elaborate prank.
I suggest that it may have been the work of autistic person. In the past they were called 'eccentric' but it seems their mental abilities were a step above most of humanity. I could easily envision someone like that creating this book, and their own language. A book written by someone who never planned to have anyone else read it. It may have been a personal diary, depicting his(her) view of life.
Well, that's just your opinion.
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Of course. Who would argue with that?
Maybe the author ingested a few too many exotic herbs while writing the book.
Because 'bothering' is the only path to success?
Thanks. It's a long book with lots of pictures of vegetation. I can't imagine that the "code" is very interesting.
Sorry to pick on you, but FR would be no fun if we couldn’t have these lighthearted hazings. So... back to the camaraderie.
Have you ever bought a lottery ticket ?
Unless it from another planet...:-)
If I remember correctly they tried to match it up to every known language except Aztec.
Its Aztec—writen using Spanish Alphabet—Aztec herbs and plants—with mystical astrological applications. Like a medicial uses manuscript—made in Mexico City. That’s my take.
That argument made the most sense to me.
That was the view taken a few months back, in the previous topic about it.
New World plants, so probably New World language.
Thanks Theoria!
It’s been approached as if it were a natural language by most who’ve worked on it; there are also those who studied it and found it wasn’t a natural language. So, obviously, some degree programs are better than others. ;’)
The same has been claimed for the Phaistos Disk — that it was faked by the excavator; most who’ve worked on it don’t think so. Barry Fell published a translation in the ESOP 25-30 years ago, his at least made geographic sense.
A few years ago there was a flap about the Indus Valley Script — a couple of researchers (not linguists) fed the known inscriptions into a program and determined it isn’t a natural language; everyone else who has worked on it says it is, but it remains unknown. Some (probably most) accept that it conceals an agglutinative language, into which category many Asian languages fall, but there is at least one who claims it is Sanskrit. There’s a big stone with Indus Valley script carved into it that sets outside one of the old Harappan city sites, and it appears to be a “welcome to indusville” sign.
I believe this is written in Austrian. Perhaps President Obama can translate it for you.
Thanks for the YouTube.
That makes perfect sense-and it can’t be easy to translate into writing in the alphabet we use from say, the one Chinese or middle easterners use-the contractor I work for and I sometimes write bids in Spanish, which we were taught as children, being from S Texas-the vowel sounds don’t work right when written, and that is in the same alphabet...
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