Folder: webmail-ic-2008-11-18/Voynich From jguy@alphalink.com.au Sun Oct 2 05:28:09 2005 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:30:23 +1000 To: stolfi@ic.unicamp.br From: Jacques Guy Subject: Re: [Voynich] Hello there, and VMS meeting Reply-To: jguy@alphalink.com.au Salut Jorge, > The best >thing would be if most of the people coming to the workshop could give >other "serious" lectures at Unicamp (and/or at other universities in >the State), before or after the workshop, as a "byproduct". Say, you >could give a lecture on rongorongo or polynesian linguistics Rongorongo. I am fairly advanced now. I sent you my paper entitled "Properties of the Rongonrongo Script", didn't I? Did I tell you that I was contacted by someone who had bought a tablet in Easter Island 20 years ago and was asking me what it was worth? I had a look at the detailed photos I was sent, fully expecting the usual stuff, fakes for tourists. Surprise... the signs on it seemed to have the combinationatorial properties of the genuine tablets, which I had explained in my paper. It cannot be authentic, of course, but it could be a copy of a copy of a copy of a genuine tablet, now lost. After, that what most manuscripts of Antiquity are: copies of copies of .... Which is leading me into the question of textual criticism applied to texts in unknown languages. I could also talk about data mining. >Of course, in your case we would have to finesse the Pirahã controversy >somehow What, Pirahã? No, ichthyology and Amazonian fishes are not within my competence :-) you see what I mean? >In your last message, you seemed interested in coming to Brazil. Oh, it's just someone I met I forgot where who said Brazil might be a good place to go and retire (as long as you don't settle in Cidade de Deus I expect). >Well, >here is an half-invitation. What do you think? Should we try to make >it whole? Oh yes, by all means! Yes! Ate logo!