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Looking over the Rainbow and hallucinating.  I guess you believe the Voynich is in German too.

Don't put words in my mouth, stellar, it's a childish and petulant way to respond. I have never said nor implied that I think the Voynich is in German. I've made it quite clear that I am 65% in the constructed-language camp and I have said that if it is a natural language, it bears more resemblance to Turkic and Asian languages than western European languages in the way the parts are put together.


Stellar wrote: ...and you imply I have not worked hard at this or that its really not my realm.

Stellar, I'm not implying it, I'm saying it. Every comment you have made on this forum regarding medieval languages and paleography indicates that you don't know much or anything about them and that you don't look beyond the first thing you find that resembles something you might be able to use to support your assertions. To make progress, you have to learn to let go of things that aren't working.

I think you DO work hard, but you stubbornly pursue avenues that are built on assumptions. It's work, but it's not productive research. It's theory-building, not data collection. There's a big difference.


The character you posted is typical for its time. Most of Europe, from Scotland to Italy, wrote in Gothic cursive in the 15th century.


Addendum: I grabbed some quick examples from my database to compare to the letters you posted. Most of these are early and mid-15th century. They are from nine different countries, which illustrates how widespread a specific style of writing could be, even in the middle ages when travel was difficult. They also show that the examples you posted are not unique, nor are they especially similar to one another when compared to these additional samples:



Stellar, I hope you were not basing your "hunch" that the text is Middle English because of a perceived similarity between the VMS glyph and the Chaucerian glyph.