Voynich manuscript proven a hoax (yet again).

[Todd Ellner]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Apparently the latest issue of Cryptologia will carry an article that
> has done yet another statistical analysis of the Voynich manuscript,
> and which claims that the manuscript's text statistics are consistent
> with it being a hoax.
>
> http://www.cs.keele.ac.uk/km/blog/?p=18
>
>   
Not exactly news. The groundbreaking work was done on this a couple 
years back. If I recall
correctly the team found that it was probably a variant on period 
templated writing devices.

Now, if someone could make sense of the Codex Serafinianus 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
that would be news...

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