08-11-2025, 06:10 PM
(08-11-2025, 05:20 PM)cabeswater wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As a native Irish speaker, I don't see how this is working. The translation process seems to be changing its interpretation of Voynich characters every time it comes across them. How are you dealing with EVA o? I don't see any reference to it at the start of vords or your interpretation of the vords. There's so many issues with this I can't even form my thoughts into meaningful seperate questions and it's all melding into one huge unknown. If you don't speak Irish, I'm clueless as to how your process is working, or if there's a process at all. You decided characters must be sounds in Irish, you don't know any Irish words, so you then look up words in Irish that include the sounds you have decided are present. This is by no means a scientific or repeatable process. Feel free to correct me if I've got anything wrong here.
I'm happy to read over what you have since I actually can speak Irish, plus I have studied medieval Irish manuscripts in my time investigating the Voynich. Your definitions and spellings for Irish words are also all Modern Irish, when the Irish spoken and written around 14th C would have been Early Modern Irish. Two very different beasts after the Caighdeán Oifigiúil hybridised the three main dialects of Irish in the mid 20th century. Time-accurate Irish would be one of those three, if not one of the many lesser spoken dialects.
Hi,
So I address a lot of these responses on my TikTok and Substack. My publication isn't on this thread. I took Irish at Yale in high school so I had an understanding of conversational grammar and Munster dialect before starting. I used a medieval version of Tain Bo to compare with modern spelling. Most words are not so different at all, agus is acus medieval Irish for example. Once linked to rough phonetics all the modern words are grabbed from Teannglann based off of the three dialects in their pronunciation guide. I verify at least the english word it translates to is from or before the 15th century with an etymology dictionary.
I hope this makes sense! Let me know if you'd like to participate in repeatability.
