The reading passage presents three theories about the possible author of the "Voynich manuscript". However, the lecturer casts doubts on those claims made in the article. He is of the opinion that none of these theories is convincing enough.
To begin with, the author states that the manuscript might be a work composed of some kind of code that is too hard for anyone to figure out the meaning. It it mentioned in the reading that a physician at that time could be the author due to the similarity of his illustration and that in the manuscript. The professor rebuts this by stating that the physician was ordinary that he could not be equipped with the extra knowledge of the complicated code system. Furthermore, the illustration was just some common knowledge.
Secondly, the writer holds that the manuscript could be a fake using by a notorious men who pretended himself as someone with magical power, hence sell the fake magical book he made to extract money from the rich. The lecturer opposes this theory by mentioning the point that the book is extraordinary exquisite. In this case, it could not be a fake made by Kelley for fooling around people at that time. Since people were easily fooled and deceived then, Kelley would not put so much effort producing a fake piece.
Lastly, the author argues it might be the case that the manuscript is actually made by Voynich himself with his abundant knowledge of antique books. This argument is also contended by the professor. He says in the lecture that the book is already 400 years old, and it might be possible for Voynich to get the paper from 400 year-old books as the material of the manuscript, but it was not possible for him to get the ink from 400 years ago.
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: It
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'man'?
Suggestion: man
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, hence, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, kind of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1441.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74013157895 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6293884798 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506578947368 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 442.8 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0417744879 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.928571429 110.228320801 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160385579775 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500695168225 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0448857785693 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0961439798583 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0421760301428 0.0443174109184 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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