Quote:farmerjohn: I don't think VMS is written Classical Latin or classical Medieval Latin, and there is no need to kick at open door and compare them directly. Rather VMS is written in some form which mixes traits of Medieval, Vulgar and spoken Latin with artificial endings invented by the author.
In Latin, the endings are everything. They tell you who did what to whom. The endings in Latin are more critical than languages that have small joining words in between to substitute for the endings.
To invent a different system of endings would be difficult, and in the end, they would have to be conceptually similar to real Latin for it to make sense... which means it doesn't matter which "cipher" characters you use to express them, the interpretation would come out the same whether they were real Latin endings or invented "Latinesque" endings.
Which means... either the meaning would be distorted by invented endings (if they do not follow the same conventions as Latin), or it's not Latin.