28-06-2026, 08:02 PM
Yep, this research is beyond my lane; These new discoveries feel important.
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Does that month spelling variation only happens with German? maybe it is a phenomenon that is exclusive to the German language of the 1300s-1500s; that is like a clue if it is that narrow.
I tend to misspell "illiterate" as "iletrated" what happens is that i took by instinct the Spanish word "iletrado" and add the English conjugation rules to end up with "iletra-ted" that is a chimera word that does not exist. I was so confident that it was a real word that didn't check it up, maybe something similar happened, a short form of overconfidence from part of the scribe when predicting the existence of a word he didn't know in another language that he/she assumed is an expert in [Or maybe there were a lot of bad learned words within an inner circle of teaching.]
Specially because that doctor was "famous" and the spelling is all over the place: aka: how a prominent figure can do such variations; it points to the normality of the practice too.
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[b]-Hypothesis:
The month marginalia writer was a Dutch user that wrote in Picard French, but he learned French by Latin; he mixed up Dutch with french-latin conjugations to predict certain months and used bad learned words for others, but his/her intention was to write in full Picard French the month names.
I mean the possibility "aberil" and "iollet" as part of a natural language seems to be going down(is still possible tho.)
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Does that month spelling variation only happens with German? maybe it is a phenomenon that is exclusive to the German language of the 1300s-1500s; that is like a clue if it is that narrow.
I tend to misspell "illiterate" as "iletrated" what happens is that i took by instinct the Spanish word "iletrado" and add the English conjugation rules to end up with "iletra-ted" that is a chimera word that does not exist. I was so confident that it was a real word that didn't check it up, maybe something similar happened, a short form of overconfidence from part of the scribe when predicting the existence of a word he didn't know in another language that he/she assumed is an expert in [Or maybe there were a lot of bad learned words within an inner circle of teaching.]
Specially because that doctor was "famous" and the spelling is all over the place: aka: how a prominent figure can do such variations; it points to the normality of the practice too.
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[b]-Hypothesis:
The month marginalia writer was a Dutch user that wrote in Picard French, but he learned French by Latin; he mixed up Dutch with french-latin conjugations to predict certain months and used bad learned words for others, but his/her intention was to write in full Picard French the month names.
I mean the possibility "aberil" and "iollet" as part of a natural language seems to be going down(is still possible tho.)
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