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By: Jody maat | 2rfutr

Jody maat | 2rfutr — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:25:37 +0000

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By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:23:34 +0000

Hi John,

I’m sorry, but I’m one of those people that suspect that most claimed etymologies for names are made up. And words are rarely much better! =:-o

Apologies if this isn’t what you wanted to hear!

Cheers, …Nick Pelling…

By: john maats

john maats — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:45:15 +0000

any thoughts about the origin of maat in the dutch language please?

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:24:05 +0000

The subtle genius of the Voynich Manuscript – and this is something that I’ve been pointing out for years – is that it was written in a cipher which had been constructed to resemble an unknown European language. What you are reading, then, is the covertext: the letters on the surface, while the actual meaning swims just beneath.

Why is the covertext not in a book available ?

Just beneath I am looking as wellll. (only works if the covertext is available I think)

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:01:16 +0000

All the same, just as with Brumbaugh in the 1970s, there are places where Jody’s reading does seem briefly to make sense, as if the pages were lit by a flickering candle: but having myself tried to duplicate his reading on other pages, this only seems to happen once or twice per page – not statistically significant.

That is because you do not have the alphabet, Voynich.nl is not finished yet and as you saw I made mistakes building it. No problem, Nick was the one telling me I had to prove no-thing…..which I will though.

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:22:59 +0000

I can “light” your pages in due time…..

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:13:02 +0000

I am NOT a she.

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:07:51 +0000

The sabat note is not a librarian note (end book)

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:55:01 +0000

Thanks nick,
Won”t “block” you again, just building, takes time.

Somethings work, somethings people do not understand, takes time.

I have time mund is not like the mand now.

I have time, first priority is to prove you can read it.

“Problems” are for later.

Rene is right,
I have to prove, but….. people decide..not the ones building a book around a theorie.

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:50:18 +0000

Hi Elmar,

I’ve had quite a dialogue with Jody over the past month or so, mainly via comments left on this site (and a few on yours). I first found his museumofhoaxes comment not long after he left it (back in 2006, as I recall), so have been tracking his “Maat theory” for some time. No, it’s not a practical joke: but even the smartest of Voynich theorists have tended to get one or more aspects of the palaeography & codicology wrong (just think of Brumbaugh and the f49v number column), so I’m not hugely surprised.

Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….

PS: have I convinced you yet that it’s a cipher designed to resemble a non-existent archaic language?