03-12-2023, 02:15 AM
With respect to the Google translate results above....
In my opinion, "appreciate the age of one" and "each one of them will be saved as well", are NOT meaningful sentences, or sentence fragments. They are exactly the types of phrases that people have been getting out of the Voynich MS text ever since Levitov.
To the contrary "today noodle soup at half price" IS meaningful. It conveys something.
It is actually easy to check the Google translate results, if they are for a language one does not know.
That procedure is even a good idea if the tool is used to communicate with someone using their unknown (to us) language.
It is correct that GTr converts "quacenum unum eruum tum quam" to "each one of them will be saved as well", but does it also mean that? Does it even mean anything? Is it real Latin?.
Just click the arrows to swap the input and output languages.
Then "each one of them will be saved as well" will become: "unusquisque autem eorum salvus erit".
Now THAT is Latin. And it looks nothing whatsoever like the original input words. Now swap again, and the English becomes: "but every one of them will be saved", which is also far better.
In all proposed thranslations of the MS, one has to try to imagine what the author was trying to convey, and once one has an idea of that, then see if the words one has found actually convey that.
That is not specific to this example.
In my opinion, "appreciate the age of one" and "each one of them will be saved as well", are NOT meaningful sentences, or sentence fragments. They are exactly the types of phrases that people have been getting out of the Voynich MS text ever since Levitov.
To the contrary "today noodle soup at half price" IS meaningful. It conveys something.
It is actually easy to check the Google translate results, if they are for a language one does not know.
That procedure is even a good idea if the tool is used to communicate with someone using their unknown (to us) language.
It is correct that GTr converts "quacenum unum eruum tum quam" to "each one of them will be saved as well", but does it also mean that? Does it even mean anything? Is it real Latin?.
Just click the arrows to swap the input and output languages.
Then "each one of them will be saved as well" will become: "unusquisque autem eorum salvus erit".
Now THAT is Latin. And it looks nothing whatsoever like the original input words. Now swap again, and the English becomes: "but every one of them will be saved", which is also far better.
In all proposed thranslations of the MS, one has to try to imagine what the author was trying to convey, and once one has an idea of that, then see if the words one has found actually convey that.
That is not specific to this example.


![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)