24-09-2018, 11:52 PM
David,
I put a lot of time and effort into writing that essay and I was really hoping for criticism more valuable than what you provided.
It is apparent that the author of the marginalia had no intention whatsoever of making himself easily understood and probably for the same reason that the VMS was written in code in the first place.
On 16th century Spanish, rather than Google Translate, you could try the dictionary of the Real Academia:
urbe
Del lat. urbs, -bis.
1. f. Ciudad, especialmente la muy populosa.
salino, na
La forma f., del lat. salīnae.
1. adj. Que contiene sal.
2. adj. Que tiene cualidades propias de la sal.
prender
Del lat. vulg. prendĕre.
1. tr. Asir, agarrar, sujetar algo.
BTW: Did you bother to read more than the first few paragraphs?
I put a lot of time and effort into writing that essay and I was really hoping for criticism more valuable than what you provided.
It is apparent that the author of the marginalia had no intention whatsoever of making himself easily understood and probably for the same reason that the VMS was written in code in the first place.
On 16th century Spanish, rather than Google Translate, you could try the dictionary of the Real Academia:
urbe
Del lat. urbs, -bis.
1. f. Ciudad, especialmente la muy populosa.
salino, na
La forma f., del lat. salīnae.
1. adj. Que contiene sal.
2. adj. Que tiene cualidades propias de la sal.
prender
Del lat. vulg. prendĕre.
1. tr. Asir, agarrar, sujetar algo.
BTW: Did you bother to read more than the first few paragraphs?