The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[rikforto]

All I can say is that the Starred Parags text quite accurately matches the Chinese character text of the Shennong Bencao, as extracted from the Zhenghe  Bencao (ZHB) file, in the sense that the cribs I have identified so far occur in both texts with proportional spacings (at the ratio of ~5 EVA letters to 1 hanzi) -- with accuracy that is very unlikely to be a mere coincidence.  

Insofar as you think the match is accurate, there is no ambiguity about the language. The Shennong Bencao Jing text you identify with the SPS is written in Classical Chinese. My point is that this has implications for the intelligibility of dictation separate from the problem that the Scribe would not know Classical Chinese, though I also don't think it's all that plausible he would extensively record a language he did not know if it were theoretically readable