The words on the bottom-right are German, and "mich" is an extremely common word for "me". The reason we have a hard time interpreting it is because the grammar is strange. A native German speaker might use those words, but would put them in a different order.
German grammar is hard for some people, if they come from languages where the verb is at the beginning. In German, it is often at the end (not 100% of the time, but frequently).
In English, we say, "I can understand that." In German, they say, "I can that understand." Quite a few of my classmates never could wrap their brains around this fairly simple concept and they gave up and dropped out or switched to Spanish or French.
Some of the Holy Roman emperors chose German as the official language (rather than Latin) which means that people traveling to the capital to seek patronage or to conduct business were forced to use a language many of them didn't know. I sometimes wonder if this is what happened with the VMS. It's a mixture of Latin (which most scholars learned) and Romance and German (which many scholars did not know, since they learned Latin as the lingua franca and thus were more likely to choose a Romance language if they learned another one, because they are similar to Latin).
German grammar is hard for some people, if they come from languages where the verb is at the beginning. In German, it is often at the end (not 100% of the time, but frequently).
In English, we say, "I can understand that." In German, they say, "I can that understand." Quite a few of my classmates never could wrap their brains around this fairly simple concept and they gave up and dropped out or switched to Spanish or French.
Some of the Holy Roman emperors chose German as the official language (rather than Latin) which means that people traveling to the capital to seek patronage or to conduct business were forced to use a language many of them didn't know. I sometimes wonder if this is what happened with the VMS. It's a mixture of Latin (which most scholars learned) and Romance and German (which many scholars did not know, since they learned Latin as the lingua franca and thus were more likely to choose a Romance language if they learned another one, because they are similar to Latin).