Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
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I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
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Joined Sep 2017
goodnight, sleepies and non-sleepies!
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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@lizardsquid Unfortunately it's almost never actually true. Every couple of years someone claims to have cracked the thing, although none of them have ever bothered to do anything like, say, produce a translation or earn the consensus of other scholars.
The kicker for me was "The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period". Two weeks, you say! Gosh, it really sounds like he labored long and hard over this. Outsider decipherments do occur (Linear B was cracked by an architect), but they still take years of careful work and collaboration with other scholars. Even Champollion (Egyptian Hieroglyphic) or Michael Ventris (the Linear B guy) didn't do it alone. In *two weeks*.
The kicker for me was "The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period". Two weeks, you say! Gosh, it really sounds like he labored long and hard over this. Outsider decipherments do occur (Linear B was cracked by an architect), but they still take years of careful work and collaboration with other scholars. Even Champollion (Egyptian Hieroglyphic) or Michael Ventris (the Linear B guy) didn't do it alone. In *two weeks*.
@stjohn yeah, I was skimming the original paper, and saw the author misusing linguistic terms and not being particularly clear about how they determined which glyphs are associated with which symbols, but assumed that they would explain it later.
And then the paper just ended, with a side note that the author had "solved" it in just 2 weeks.
*appears slowly*
I just read a somewhat convincing claim that the Voynich manuscript has been translated:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1599566
...and then a very convincing explanation of how that's not actually true:
*turns into a sergal*
... I'll add it to my reading list
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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"job creation" is actually the name of my cloning device, which unfortunately only creates clones of steve jobs, and further, i cannot stop it, help
@InspectorCaracal I always use widdershins on board games days, because then nobody gets confused about whether I said "clockwise" or "anticlockwise"
selfie, ec, 
@maple aaa cute!!
@SilviaFox@sleeping.town the lizard loves you too!!!
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@softgoat *happily squeaks*
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@softgoat *gooey snugs*
I'm the Morning lizard
minecraft
@BatElite well this mod adds a bunch of biomes, some of them are less conducive to living in than others.
It seems to be a recent trend in Minecraft mods, though - making things more grindy because otherwise they're "too easy"
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
