Tech Times. Dr. Kate Wiles weighs in:
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Also, Cheshire claims no interpretation is involved (in reading the VMS using his system).
This is a remarkable claim if you consider that his "solution" mostly consists of a grab-bag of partial words from several languages, that are pasted together with no grammatical consistency, and that the same token is broken up several different ways, and the resulting "syllables" are often interpreted more than one way, and that the frequency distribution of the character-substitution system does not match any Romance (or "proto-Romance") language, I'd say his system is about 95% interpretation.
Other claims within Cheshire's paper:
"It is also no exaggeration to say this work represents one of the most important developments to date in Romance linguistics. The manuscript is written in proto-Romance ..."
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Also, Cheshire claims no interpretation is involved (in reading the VMS using his system).
This is a remarkable claim if you consider that his "solution" mostly consists of a grab-bag of partial words from several languages, that are pasted together with no grammatical consistency, and that the same token is broken up several different ways, and the resulting "syllables" are often interpreted more than one way, and that the frequency distribution of the character-substitution system does not match any Romance (or "proto-Romance") language, I'd say his system is about 95% interpretation.
Other claims within Cheshire's paper:
"It is also no exaggeration to say this work represents one of the most important developments to date in Romance linguistics. The manuscript is written in proto-Romance ..."