O’Donovan wrote: “Hi JKP – it’s lucky that our correspondents alert us to each other’s blogposts. I’d be perfectly happy to publish and respond to any correction to my post, but it’s probably as well if responding to what I write, to respond there, so I see it.”

Do you realize how hypocritical that is? You want me to comment directly on your blog so you can see it, and yet this whole thing started because you wrote misleading information about me behind my back on your blog while not informing me about it.

Light-hearted comment or not, it was highly unprofessional of you to repeat a rumor that I am someone else.

I am not opposed to healthy debate about matters of history, differences of opinion don’t bother me as long as the arguments are well-supported, but you are pointing fingers, twisting information, and making things personal and, quite frankly, that is behavior that should stop when we leave high school.

A jeu d’esprit is a light-hearted comment, one neither meant nor likely to be taken seriously but just to prevent anyone taking it more seriously (as various misrepresentations of persons involved in this study have been in the past), I made a point of saying that it was a lighthearted idea and that I’m sure you are a separate person – whatever other things in common the two of you might have.

Also – it is difficult to write about the current state of this study, and current ideas about the manuscript without mentioning people currently engaged in it. I write about the manuscript, and for that reason about what various researchers have said or are saying. There is quite a difference between writing about a person and crediting properly the source of the information being discussed.
I only wish that distinction were true of every Voynich writer and chat-list member today.

Thank you for mentioning Anton’s work though I’m among the millions of people who are not members of that list and as a result I know nothing of the work you mention.

Speaking of work done, this seems a good moment to ask (a) if you mind my ‘quoting’ some details from your post about Aries and (b) whether you’ve kept a record of the specific mss from which the details came so I can reference them in full.

Anytime you’d like to correct an error of fact in my posts, please do. Preferably with biblog. references. I actively encourage readers to correct factual errors, because it saves them becoming ‘Chinese whispers’ as so many Voynich-related errors do.