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		tveita on Feb 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not ... It's pretty dubious that he says "I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text", like it was a novel idea. One recent attempt: same method, drastically different results: http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue100/hg100-feat-voy...

MichaelGG on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

Remember, journalism. If he even said that, his next sentence might have been "Of course, that had been tried a thousand times and wasn't very new by itself."

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