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Re:New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery by kristopolous on Saturday February 08, 2014 @09:30AM (#7201250)
I believe that presumes it's a traditional phonetic alphabet. I'm not a linguist by any measure, but the inventiveness I have seen in human languages gives me hope here.

But let's assume this is an elaborate hoax by a masterful con-artist. Are you really claiming that someone spent so long crafting such a forgery, with nothing before or after - like some black dahlia of literature?

Re:New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery by trevelyan on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:10PM (#7201948)
> like some black dahlia of literature?

What do you mean by this? I haven't heard the expression before....