14-01-2018, 09:47 PM
JKP, escuse me, this is going to be a bit personal but still.
I'm complete zero in Latin, even after rewriting Whitaker's Words and working with it for more than a year. When I started working with VMS and understood that this is Latin I bought several Latin textbooks. But mapping Voynechese to Latin wasn't going very well. Words mapped well, structure didn't. I understood very soon that "some interesting form of Latin" is the only way out. So there was a choice: wrong theory with classical language or correct but unprovable in practice theory with some fantastic language. Or in other words to quit or become object of mockery.
The choice was heavy, but more importantly the objective of research somewhat changed. Now it's not "to map" to language, but "to find" language. My textbooks became almost useless, with only basic facts and tables of endings needed. Everything else can do more harm. Sort of "tunnel vision".
So matching my "translations" to Latin today is funny but useless. I have had few replies on them and all negatives. Matching properties of VMS language to properties of Latin, especially spoken, is more promising direction IMHO which I'm certainly not capable of...
Now today the primary task is to find reliable word translations. The translation is more or less reliable if can be applied in several places. There these strange small phrases are pretty handy and they also give insights on grammar. In my last pdf I tried to keep only phrases where all or at least most of words were reliable.
I'm not sure about EVA-octhy at all, it comes from my current interpretation of EVA-cthy ("to flow [colors]") which is applicable in several places and separately standing EVA-o. To be honest there are significantly more interesting words in VMS.
I'm complete zero in Latin, even after rewriting Whitaker's Words and working with it for more than a year. When I started working with VMS and understood that this is Latin I bought several Latin textbooks. But mapping Voynechese to Latin wasn't going very well. Words mapped well, structure didn't. I understood very soon that "some interesting form of Latin" is the only way out. So there was a choice: wrong theory with classical language or correct but unprovable in practice theory with some fantastic language. Or in other words to quit or become object of mockery.
The choice was heavy, but more importantly the objective of research somewhat changed. Now it's not "to map" to language, but "to find" language. My textbooks became almost useless, with only basic facts and tables of endings needed. Everything else can do more harm. Sort of "tunnel vision".
So matching my "translations" to Latin today is funny but useless. I have had few replies on them and all negatives. Matching properties of VMS language to properties of Latin, especially spoken, is more promising direction IMHO which I'm certainly not capable of...
Now today the primary task is to find reliable word translations. The translation is more or less reliable if can be applied in several places. There these strange small phrases are pretty handy and they also give insights on grammar. In my last pdf I tried to keep only phrases where all or at least most of words were reliable.
I'm not sure about EVA-octhy at all, it comes from my current interpretation of EVA-cthy ("to flow [colors]") which is applicable in several places and separately standing EVA-o. To be honest there are significantly more interesting words in VMS.