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Re:Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic by Kalium on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:57AM (#19917545)
The paper itself is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1...

From the introduction:

> Past scholarly attempts at solving the writing system are far too numerous to mention individually, but none was successful in any way, because every attempt simply used the wrong approach

This is rather a strong claim (which I am not equipped to evaluate). The author goes on to argue that the manuscript can be understood as an example of a long-hypothesized language with minimal written artifacts.

Re:Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic by bloak on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:03AM (#19917871)
"Published online: 29 Apr 2019", says that page, and the article itself says "May 15, 2019", but it looks like Gerard Cheshire published his theory in 2017, because here's a plausible-sounding rebuttal from November 2017:

https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulga...

Re:Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic by jfengel on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:15AM (#19920210)
And indeed, it was discussed on Hacker News at least once before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19491517