Most of the words so far aren't Latin, as claimed (nor is any of the grammar), even though the glyphs that follow Latin scribal conventions are being expanded with valid Latin prefixes and suffixes.
Google Translate might interpret them as such, because the software makes a "best guess" as to what mystery words might be, but taken individually, they're not Latin.
The "translation" really falls apart with some of the longer words (as might be expected). You can combine almost any short syllable with a valid Latin prefix or suffix and get something that might be a word (as can be done with Greek, Turkish, or Arabic), but one is less likely to hit a "bingo" with longer words—for those the method needs to work.
What do our Latin scholars think of "ilaque aris aferanius" (translation of line 1 f1r)? Even if you correct "ilaque" to "itaque" it doesn't mean anything, and aris doesn't fit the context (and aris probably only works because it's easy to create words by adding valid Latin suffixes to short syllables).
Searcher has a much better grasp of Latin and made a heroic effort to translate the VMS into Latin, a creditable effort, I would say, but ran across all the usual VMS stumbling blocks in terms of repetition, glyph-position inflexibility, etc. From what I've seen so far, Lockerby doesn't appear to have a working (or even rudimentary) knowledge of Latin and would thus find it difficult to judge (or even recognize) whether it were sense or nonsense.
I'm still withholding judgment until I see more, these are very short phrases and one needs to see a whole paragraph to really know, but so far, half the words are not Latin and there's no grammatical sense to it.
Google Translate might interpret them as such, because the software makes a "best guess" as to what mystery words might be, but taken individually, they're not Latin.
The "translation" really falls apart with some of the longer words (as might be expected). You can combine almost any short syllable with a valid Latin prefix or suffix and get something that might be a word (as can be done with Greek, Turkish, or Arabic), but one is less likely to hit a "bingo" with longer words—for those the method needs to work.
What do our Latin scholars think of "ilaque aris aferanius" (translation of line 1 f1r)? Even if you correct "ilaque" to "itaque" it doesn't mean anything, and aris doesn't fit the context (and aris probably only works because it's easy to create words by adding valid Latin suffixes to short syllables).
Searcher has a much better grasp of Latin and made a heroic effort to translate the VMS into Latin, a creditable effort, I would say, but ran across all the usual VMS stumbling blocks in terms of repetition, glyph-position inflexibility, etc. From what I've seen so far, Lockerby doesn't appear to have a working (or even rudimentary) knowledge of Latin and would thus find it difficult to judge (or even recognize) whether it were sense or nonsense.
I'm still withholding judgment until I see more, these are very short phrases and one needs to see a whole paragraph to really know, but so far, half the words are not Latin and there's no grammatical sense to it.