Hi Rene,
thank you for starting this thread. I think it could be useful to define a set of forum rules for those who intend to share their translation proposal.
I agree with what you write about the original-language->Voynichese steps. In particular clearly presented mapping tables are necessary to make reduplication of the process easy.
I think that the original-language->English steps also are often inaccurately presented. Sometimes, a first "word salad" step is presented, and in a second step meaningful English is created by free association with the available words. I call this "word salad" because root words are listed without any analysis of their morphology. Sadly, in many cases only the final result (meaningful English) is presented.
See for instance this "translation" ("transliteration"?) by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
The following is an example of the kind of English translation that I find useful (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Each word is annotated with specific grammatical categories and a rigorous word-by-word translation. This word-by-word translation is easy to match with the actual translation at the top of the page. I would find it useful if, in addition, also the corresponding root word was presented for each word in the text.
thank you for starting this thread. I think it could be useful to define a set of forum rules for those who intend to share their translation proposal.
I agree with what you write about the original-language->Voynichese steps. In particular clearly presented mapping tables are necessary to make reduplication of the process easy.
I think that the original-language->English steps also are often inaccurately presented. Sometimes, a first "word salad" step is presented, and in a second step meaningful English is created by free association with the available words. I call this "word salad" because root words are listed without any analysis of their morphology. Sadly, in many cases only the final result (meaningful English) is presented.
See for instance this "translation" ("transliteration"?) by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
The following is an example of the kind of English translation that I find useful (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Each word is annotated with specific grammatical categories and a rigorous word-by-word translation. This word-by-word translation is easy to match with the actual translation at the top of the page. I would find it useful if, in addition, also the corresponding root word was presented for each word in the text.