31-07-2018, 03:43 AM
The more I look at VMS pages, it looks to me like a teacher's notes..
Made from more than one source manuscripts available at the time, to teach stuff written in them.
Maybe as a trade secret, they added strange nature to the text to make it unreadable (deliberately adding suffixes, putting an idea in a line [LAAFU], and freely omitting initial letters [Derek's findins]) to those who haven't read the originals,and don't know the conventions. And since this is a teacher's copy, just for them to get the ideas, grammar might not have been strictly folowed. Also kindof explains the metaphorical nature of some drawings (to show students hand-shaped leaves of a plant for example (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), rather than telling them they're hand shaped and expecting them to by-heart it)
Just a theory trying to make sense of most of what we know. I know it's a looong shot..
Made from more than one source manuscripts available at the time, to teach stuff written in them.
Maybe as a trade secret, they added strange nature to the text to make it unreadable (deliberately adding suffixes, putting an idea in a line [LAAFU], and freely omitting initial letters [Derek's findins]) to those who haven't read the originals,and don't know the conventions. And since this is a teacher's copy, just for them to get the ideas, grammar might not have been strictly folowed. Also kindof explains the metaphorical nature of some drawings (to show students hand-shaped leaves of a plant for example (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), rather than telling them they're hand shaped and expecting them to by-heart it)
Just a theory trying to make sense of most of what we know. I know it's a looong shot..