Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[JoJo_Jost]

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:

Thanks, Stolfi!

This shows that this is a procedure that makes perfect sense from a human perspective; it's really interesting and good to know, and of course it fits perfectly with VBM (and of your chinese Theorie  )

Greetings Jost