Friday, February 21, 2014

My guess is this'll turn out to be a recipe for meatloaf

"600 year old mystery manuscript decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor".

12 comments:

Jonah said...

The class notes of a 10th grade student in the age before marijuana?

RebeccaH said...

Considering all the stars and herbs, I'm betting on a recipe for beer.

Mojo said...

Compendium of herbal medicine. Valuable, back then, which is why it's coded.

JeffS said...

It doesn't sound like code or cipher, Mojo. It's sounds like an obscure written form of a language that wasn't in wide spread use, and wasn't passed on culturally. Hence, we have no record of it, pretty much like Egyptian hieroglyphics once were.

Mojo said...

People consider foreign languages "secret"? I did not know that.

More likely to be a personal code.

Mikael said...

I once read a hilarious sci-fi where a spaceship picks up a mysterious book in outer space. All the scientist were extremely exited because they were convinced they found the Martian´s bible, until the Japanese cook saw it and told them it was the phone-book for Tokyo.

(The novel is called "Terra" by Stefano Benni, BTW. You should read if you get the chance, it´s really great!)

Paco said...

Sounds good, Mikael. Thanks for the recommendation.

missred said...

"To Serve Man"

JeffS said...

I said "obscure"' Mojo, not "secret". Ain't no language what be "secret".

And if by "code" you mean "shorthand", that's plausible.

Veeshir said...

I already translated using the Professor's translatobot.

It said, "Your parents love you very much."

Merilyn said...

OK didn't someone tell Wronwright to hold on to that. Sheesh.

Paco said...

Merilyn: Hey, maybe it's the Sumerian mead recipe!