16-04-2026, 09:13 PM
As far as I understand your theory now, you are claiming that
- some european guy noted one of the most complicated languages
- somehow phonetically
- in an own system of not more than 20+ characters,
- using at least some of them as „shorthand“ symbols
- and made lots of mistakes and misunderstandings with it.
Even if it is not (central) Chinese but „just“ another far-east language that was based upon chinese writing symbols:
how is that even possible?
(To be open: I think the funny chinese symbols are already „shorthand“ for chinese language; and they use up to 30,000 of them… Chinese culture was well-developed already ~1,000 years ago — there was no simple-type chinese or other eastasian language, related to Chinese, during our 15th century anymore).
Yes, the mongolians reach deep into Europe from 13th to 16th century, left their marks and used at least 2 different writing systems in that time.
I agree there was very much non-European in Europe and like to emphasize that Europe is not at all limited to an 80km-perimeter around the Alps;
but I don‘t get the „chinese-recording“ traveller with that unique system (written flawlessly by at least 2 different scribers).
Is VMS a book about Europeans? — Yes.
Is VMS a European book? — With a very high probability, yes.
Was it made upon a european language base? We have no idea, but both previous lines point to that.
- some european guy noted one of the most complicated languages
- somehow phonetically
- in an own system of not more than 20+ characters,
- using at least some of them as „shorthand“ symbols
- and made lots of mistakes and misunderstandings with it.
Even if it is not (central) Chinese but „just“ another far-east language that was based upon chinese writing symbols:
how is that even possible?
(To be open: I think the funny chinese symbols are already „shorthand“ for chinese language; and they use up to 30,000 of them… Chinese culture was well-developed already ~1,000 years ago — there was no simple-type chinese or other eastasian language, related to Chinese, during our 15th century anymore).
Yes, the mongolians reach deep into Europe from 13th to 16th century, left their marks and used at least 2 different writing systems in that time.
I agree there was very much non-European in Europe and like to emphasize that Europe is not at all limited to an 80km-perimeter around the Alps;
but I don‘t get the „chinese-recording“ traveller with that unique system (written flawlessly by at least 2 different scribers).
Is VMS a book about Europeans? — Yes.
Is VMS a European book? — With a very high probability, yes.
Was it made upon a european language base? We have no idea, but both previous lines point to that.