03-08-2017, 06:33 PM
I'd be interested in what the blogger has to say also, but the impression I got (and this is JUST a guess) is that maybe he used Google Translate to try out character assignments on a chunk of text and once it start looking like Latin he extended it to making a character-assignment chart for the rest of the manuscript.
Totally a guess, but the problem is, you can type semi-nonsense sentences into Google Translate and the software tries to make a grammatical sentence out of it as long as SOME of it is valid. In other words, you don't have to supply completely correct words in any grammatical order (and they certainly don't have to be words that were specific to the 15th century) for the English translation to look somewhat valid. To someone who doesn't know Latin, it might look like a legitimate translation.
I could be completely wrong, but since most of the "Latin" he has offered so far is not actually Latin, perhaps that is how the translation table was developed.
There might be some Latin in the manuscript, but if so, it's definitely not anything like this.
Totally a guess, but the problem is, you can type semi-nonsense sentences into Google Translate and the software tries to make a grammatical sentence out of it as long as SOME of it is valid. In other words, you don't have to supply completely correct words in any grammatical order (and they certainly don't have to be words that were specific to the 15th century) for the English translation to look somewhat valid. To someone who doesn't know Latin, it might look like a legitimate translation.
I could be completely wrong, but since most of the "Latin" he has offered so far is not actually Latin, perhaps that is how the translation table was developed.
There might be some Latin in the manuscript, but if so, it's definitely not anything like this.