Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I approach the text exactly the way I do. I think that’s exactly the right approach to deciphering it.

As you know, I have my own theory about the VMS.  But I just remembered a bit of trivia that provides a bit of support for your theory as well as mine.  

Lewis and Clark are another example of travelers inventing their own phonetic writing system to record local languages -- in that case, mostly people and place names.  They would split the foreign word into syllables and then write each syllable with Latin letters so that it would have approximately the right sound when read with English spelling rules:

The names of the Chiefs we acknowledged Made this day are as follows Viz

        Indian name        English signftn.

 1st    We ar ruge nor     Ottoe Called Little Theif
   2    Shon go ton go     "     "      Big Horse
        We the a           Miss. "      Hospatality
        Shon Guss Con      Ottoe "      White horse
        Wau pe uh          M.
        Ah ho ning ga      M.
        Baza cou ja        Ottoe
        Ah ho ne ga        M.

All the best, --stolfi