Cvetka's Slovenian Theory Thread

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Lastly, on #2

In my long Grammar article  (which is probably too boring for those who want translation, rather then explanation how I had adopted EVA alphabet, how Slovenian language relates to other languages) I already answered on many questions you are raising.

Perhaps they are in the other articles but I cannot find anything in your main Grammar article that deals with most of these points.   In your discussion about gallows glyphs, I haven't found anything about why p and f start paragraphs so often.  I also cannot find anything that references the phenomena we see at the beginnings and ends of lines.  In particular, in the section I've found where you say how you identified m, there is no reference to its most frequent location at the end of lines. 

Somebody who is not familiar with Slavic language, would have hard time understanding how one sentence can have a string of EVA 'dy' endings 

On dy, the bits I found in the article are as follows: 

• dy can be read as as dj = give
  
• and "the –DY suffix in Slovenian language is used for infinite verbs, as well as for imperative mood, and occasionally for the 3. person, singular, present tense.  In the VM, the imperative mood is used for instructions rather than for commands"
  

Infinitives and imperatives are not usually frequent words in most texts.  Even combined with "give", I cannot see how this could produce the strings of text Marco showed.  And those are only two of the most extreme examples of 10 successive instances.   The text is littered with multiple successive "dy" words, particularly for Scribe 2. 

Again, this shows how important it is to work on sentences and paragraphs, rather than isolated words with no context.  I don't see how you can address this point without sample sentences.

What I reject most is Currier's reasoning to claim the VM is written in different languages. There are certain topics that require different style of writing: poems are usually written in the first person singular, or in a form of a dialogue with God; the instruction and recipes would most likely be written in second person, imperative; the story would most likely be told in past tense. All these could change the endings in the words.

A couple points on this.  Firstly it's worth noting that Currier meant language in a way that could include dialectal differences as well.  Secondly, the differences are not limited to just endings.  There are key differences in the middle of words and also word initials.  So if your theory ascribes the Currier differences to inflection, it will have to explain why differences are found in all locations of the word.  If your theory also ascribes the differences to topic variation, it should also account for why some of the biggest differences are between Herbal A and Herbal B. 

Again, all this simply re-emphasizes how important it is to work on sentences and paragraphs, rather than isolated words with no context.  I don't see how you can possibly draw these points out without having full sentences.