Re: what makes a con-script a Con-Script?

From:    Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> On Sep 28, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> > But the question is not so simple, as the magazine
> > "Science et Vie" (october 2004) tells us, about the
> > "Voynich Manuscript". Specialists have been working 4
> > centuries on it and they couldn't yet decide what it
> > might mean, and does it mean something at all (or is
> > it simply a forgery, a hoax).
>
> Wired magazine has an article about someone who claims to have
> deciphered the Voynich manuscript as not being language, just
> semi-random symbols
Yeah, Scientific American recently had an article whose author
claims definitively to have proven (as much as will be possible)
that the manuscript is a forgery to defraud HR Emperor Rudolf II,
who was fairly naive about his collection of antiquities:

<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000E3AA-70E1-10CF-
AD1983414B7F0000&sc=I100322>

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