[Article] J. Michael Herrmann - Cannabis in the context of the Pahlavi hypothesis

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If one looks at the charts (I think they started approx. page 10), one sees that when he translates the words into actual sentences he take a lot of liberties.

For example, if a word doesn't seem to make sense, he leaves it out of the sentence. Also, there's a lot of subjective tinkering with the words to turn them into sentences, a process that appears to me to be similar to what farmerjohn is doing even though Herrmann and farmerjohn are proposing different languages.


I think Hermann is keeping the word "Pahvlavi" in there because he's still making glyph shape correspondences between the VMS characters and Pahlavi, but most of them have to be reversed or flipped or both and even then most of them aren't that similar.


I've been able to get many words and sentences out of VMS code in a dozen different languages, it's not that hard for the simple reason that vowel-consonant balance is similar in most languages. What is hard is staying true to the "deciphered" words and getting anything even close to a rational and consistent paragraph out of them. The temptation to massage the words into truly meaningful text is great but as soon as that is done, it becomes a subjective process of "creating" meaning rather than finding it.