28-06-2018, 05:28 PM
Antonio, I don't think you are understanding me.
I have NO TROUBLE with the concept of this possibly being a code or something synthetically generated. I have NEVER assumed it's natural language, so it is NOT difficult for me to get used to.
But your theory is not taking into consideration some important structural characteristics of the VMS text.
You have a hunch that it might be coded astrological information, but why would someone code this astrological information (including the 8 and 9 characters) into almost every word in the VMS from beginning to end for 200 pages? Wouldn't there have to be some information in between these codes for it to make any sense? And WHY would the 9 almost always be at the end? and sometimes at the beginning and rarely in the middle? I've asked this question three times now. Numbers in medieval manuscripts are not positioned that way. Numbers used for linguistic abbreviations ARE positioned this way.
I don't mean this to sound derogatory, but hunches are easy. Theories are easy. Explaining HOW the information fits within the theory is the part that matters and sometimes you have to put the theory aside and actually study the text to see what is going on to get to the answers. In my opinion, theories tend to get in the way of objective observation.
I have NO TROUBLE with the concept of this possibly being a code or something synthetically generated. I have NEVER assumed it's natural language, so it is NOT difficult for me to get used to.
But your theory is not taking into consideration some important structural characteristics of the VMS text.
You have a hunch that it might be coded astrological information, but why would someone code this astrological information (including the 8 and 9 characters) into almost every word in the VMS from beginning to end for 200 pages? Wouldn't there have to be some information in between these codes for it to make any sense? And WHY would the 9 almost always be at the end? and sometimes at the beginning and rarely in the middle? I've asked this question three times now. Numbers in medieval manuscripts are not positioned that way. Numbers used for linguistic abbreviations ARE positioned this way.
I don't mean this to sound derogatory, but hunches are easy. Theories are easy. Explaining HOW the information fits within the theory is the part that matters and sometimes you have to put the theory aside and actually study the text to see what is going on to get to the answers. In my opinion, theories tend to get in the way of objective observation.