Text and context

[cvetkakocj@rogers.com]

The wrong way to explore that possibility is to start picking out Voynich words that might look like Ladin words. I don't use that method. I'm allergic to translating random Voynich words. 

Since I am using the method of translating the individual VM words, using the transcriptional alphabet I adopted from EVA by changing EVA-q to p, p to sv, f to zv, m to il, I can tell you there are many advantages, however, you have to start with those that appear most frequently, because those words can give you a lot of information about the language, location, grammar. It can give you also a lot of information about the content of the text, regardless of the pictures. I have seen many theories that the VM is about the women's health, but no words were offered either for 'a woman' or for 'health', or 'healing'. The same could be said for the ideas about the stars: Dr. Bax transcribed them with his alphabet, but he really could not come up with a single name of the star in any language, because his assumption was wrong. Because of some similarity of script in the marginalia and the names of the months, it has been assumed that the language might be Ladin. As Petersen pointed out, the Ladin in 15th century was different than it is today, a lot more Slovenian words were used. Slovenian was also the language spoken in Tyrol, Carinthia, Veneto, Friuly. You can ask yourself why first European multilingual dictionaries included Slovenian, but not Ladin? 
However, as you said, translating just the individual words is not enough, because they can mean the same thing, or different thing in different language. They can also have different meanings. To work on the VM text, it is a process of going back and forth, to compare how individual words fit into text. 
You mention the process of elimination: One way some VM researchers eliminated Latin was based on EVA-q followed by o, instead of u. In my transcription, I read the first two words as PO and I cannot eliminate Latin based on this, since there are as many Latin words that start with PO as they are Slovenian.  However, there are other linguistic clues.