The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[eggyk]

They are remarkably different languages, so much so I've long wondered if comparison to the Romance languages might be underselling them. At any rate, the "Mandarin" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. should look comparably different from the Classical text, and certainly not word-for-word the same

And yet there are common symbols shared by both versions that roughly maintain their relative positions within the sentences in both versions. 

I typed out both into paint and marked the symbols 不 (in red) and 天 (in green). It's not super scientific how i've done this, but I basically typed both out (all sections), and then squished the longer version to be the same width as the shorter version to get the relative positions of characters. It's obviously not perfect - it's like a Back-of-the-envelope version of this analysis - but you do get results reminiscent of the daiin results from Jorge's first SPS-SBJ post: