# Voynich manuscript decoded

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568 "2018-01-27T04:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/1 "2018-01-27T04:16:49Z")

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Looks interesting although I can’t get to the referenced publication at \*Transactions Of The Association For Computational Linguistics.  
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> **[15th-century manuscript with 'alien' characters finally decoded](https://www.foxnews.com/tech/15th-century-manuscript-with-alien-characters-finally-decoded)**
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> Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript that has baffled experts.

Dennis

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/2 "2018-01-27T04:36:38Z")

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Neat. I remember hearing about this just a year or two ago, several people were claiming it was all jibberish, and had no meaning. Glad someone finally figured it out.

Even better that they used AI to help solve it.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/3 "2018-01-27T04:58:26Z")

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[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=791299) is an existing (but older) thread on the Voynich manuscript.

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/4 "2018-01-27T05:08:55Z")

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Drink more Ovaltine?

CMC fnord!

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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/5 "2018-01-27T10:30:13Z")

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The Fox News headline is highly misleading. The authors of that article don’t claim to have “decoded” the Voynich manuscript. What they did was try to figure out the language of the original plaintext, and concluded that it was anagrammed (scrambled) Hebrew. Even if that turns out to be correct, they still don’t know what the manuscript actually says.

I checked the [Voynich subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/) and the folks there are quite skeptical, to say the least.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voynich-manuscript-decoded/807568/6 "2018-01-27T12:27:24Z")

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> [@erysichthon](#):
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> The Fox News headline is highly misleading. …

Get outa here!  
(sarcasm tag)