13-02-2026, 07:50 PM
The way I see it, knowledge does not progress in a linear way, but by way of spirals. Some negation will be followed by its own negation. I am not saying this just as a dialectical cliché. I really mean it and I have seen it happen countless times in research.
You find something not fitting in, so you think it needs to be set aside; you may even forget about it altogether. But then something comes up later that reminds you of something you had regarded as false or rejected before, but now it comes of use in a completely new way that you could not have even imagined possible before.
Nothing of what Jorge_Stolfi has done will be wasted, if truthful in its aspects. Even if Chinese ends up not being a solution, there is still a puzzle to be solved about the VM manuscript language. He has insightfully (and selflessly) suggested that if the language ends up being European, it would have to be Bavarian, or something similar. So, I am sure at some point all his skills can be found helpful (as well) in pursuing that venue which he has himself acknowledged. At least, I hope so.
You find something not fitting in, so you think it needs to be set aside; you may even forget about it altogether. But then something comes up later that reminds you of something you had regarded as false or rejected before, but now it comes of use in a completely new way that you could not have even imagined possible before.
Nothing of what Jorge_Stolfi has done will be wasted, if truthful in its aspects. Even if Chinese ends up not being a solution, there is still a puzzle to be solved about the VM manuscript language. He has insightfully (and selflessly) suggested that if the language ends up being European, it would have to be Bavarian, or something similar. So, I am sure at some point all his skills can be found helpful (as well) in pursuing that venue which he has himself acknowledged. At least, I hope so.