[Article] Cheshire at it again: "Palaeographic Instruction for the Ischia Manuscript"

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- if you have a cryptographic or linguistic theory about the Mss., deciphering/translating should be the last step in your process, not the first. The problem isn't hypothesizing an otherwise unattested transitional dialect; the problem is thinking that, having hypothesized that, the right next step is groping around for "similar" words and "translating" the manuscript. There's a reason David can roam around talking in PIE in _Prometheus_; if you think the Mss is in such a transitional dialect, then the correct next step is to wrangle one or more expert linguists and ask them to reconstruct what it would look like. Having done that, then you test your hypothesis against the manuscript.