VMS - Language Families Casting

[MarcoP]

Hi Gavin,
it seems you plan to apply the method I recently described You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..


It's a rightly popular choice: this system is guaranteed to succeed. It allows translating the Voynich ms using any language at all.

A few examples:

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses vowelless pseudo-Latin.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses a different pseudo-Latin.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses bogus French.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses twisted Hebrew (plus Turkic / Greek?):

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. aka Rick Sheeger felt the need of inventing proto-Italic: a mix of words from an almost limitless number of languages (Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian and Spanish). What an overkill!

All these people seem very happy with their translations as I am sure you will be with your own. My only regret is that nobody seems to consider English as the original language of the VMS. In my opinion, the choice of little known or imaginary languages like Latin, Hebrew or proto-bogus-Italic doesn't help appreciating the creativity required by this method.

As you seem to have perfectly understood, the key to success is ignoring grammar. "A medieval version of [a dead] language written by an uneducated person" seems like the perfect context to pick random words and make up whatever meaning you want. It will be fun!