09-09-2016, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2016, 02:03 PM by ThomasCoon.)
(09-09-2016, 01:15 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi Thomas,
why should not an inflected agglutinative language be enough to explain this?
From Aeneides Book I (much shorter than the VMS):
qui
quibus
quicquid
quid
quidve
quies
quiescit
quietas
quietem
quietum
quin
quinquaginta
quippe
quirinus
quis
quisquam
quisquis
quo
quocirca
quod
quodcumque
quondam
quoque
quorum
quos
quove
I also suspected Latin for this problem (I have a degree in Latin and another degree in German linguistics, for the record).
The problem with Latin is that there are places in the VMS where 3 or 4 <qo> words appear in a row - which grammatically would make no sense in Latin (imagine "quisquis qui quorum quibus").
Technically you can make a combination of "qu" words may be grammatical, but in 10 years of reading Latin, I've definitively never seen an example of 4 "qu" words in a row. Such strings are common in the VMS but almost unheard of in Latin.
Also, such an explanation does not account for the changes inside a word. If we hypothetically say that <qot> = "quod", the Voynichese morphology does not correlate to Latin:
qot
qoteo
qoteol
qotcho
qotchol
qotcheo
qotcheol
qotol
(09-09-2016, 01:20 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A universal language that groups together modifiers would have that charactaristic.
ie:
plant|medicinal|lunar|leo|green
qot ch e o l
That also encounters the problem of "What happens when there are 3 or 4 <qo> words in a row?" You would get long lists of:
"Medicinal-Lunar-Leo-Green-Plant Non-medicinal-Taurus-Yellow-Plant Medicinal-Gemini-Red-Plant"
And then, since we've already used 2 dozen letters or clusters just to describe plants (you'd need 12 markers for the astrological signs, at least 7 colors, solar and lunar, etc. etc.) then there would be very few sign/clusters left to make the verbs and grammar that bind them all together.