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I am also interested to see what comes of this, but it's been pointed out that is paper is somewhat suspect with seemingly little input from Nahuatl language experts or prior literature on the Voynich manuscript.

Here is a refutation by one of the leading "hoax" proponents: http://hydeandrugg.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/hoaxing-the-voyn...

In it, he explains the prevalence of half-baked origin theories as a function of several psychological and probabilistic phenomena:

* Pareidolia * Confirmation bias * The birthday problem

This is an interesting discussion, as it provides a generalized and broadly applicable framework for why we often see things where they don't indeed exist.



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