Claire
@chirila.bsky.social
Prof of linguistics. 🇦🇺/🇺🇸; Australian languages, historical linguistics, Voynich Manuscript
1. AI is good at black-box problems; Voynich is a block-box problem, therefore LLMs should be able to solve it (the issue is, of course, that AI is good at *certain types* of problems that are hard for humans, but deciphering Voynichese probably isn't one of them)
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Everyone has an accent!!!
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Everyone has an accent!!!
Mary D'imperio has a lovely work on this, from 1978: voynich_manuscript.pdf share.google/hLRDIXdImc2e.... There is also voynich.nu, which Rene Zandbergen has put together and has more recent discussion
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October 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Mary D'imperio has a lovely work on this, from 1978: voynich_manuscript.pdf share.google/hLRDIXdImc2e.... There is also voynich.nu, which Rene Zandbergen has put together and has more recent discussion
Unless you're Australian
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Unless you're Australian
Interesting! I need to look more but one thing is that the pyramids are of different parts of the plant, so it might be less meaningful than first appears
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Interesting! I need to look more but one thing is that the pyramids are of different parts of the plant, so it might be less meaningful than first appears