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Voynich Manuscript Partially Decoded

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the somebody-call-in-Enoch-Root dept.

Thexalon writes:

"University of Bedfordshire professor and applied linguist Stephen Bax has decoded 10 words of the baffling Voynich Manuscript. He focused on proper names that would match the accompanying drawings, which allowed him to find similar drawings in other books of the period."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by paulej72 on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:21AM

    by paulej72 (58) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:21AM (#3115) Journal

    Now I feel at home. I just need an in Soviet Russia joke and it would be complete.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Subsentient on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:39AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:39AM (#3132) Homepage Journal

    In Soviet Russia, Voynich Manuscript decodes YOU!!!

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  • (Score: 1) by Thexalon on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:41AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:41AM (#3135)

    In Soviet Russia, manuscript decode YOU!

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