The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[rikforto]

If the VMS Author's native language was Arabic, he would have naturally followed the Arabic grammar, where "A, B, and C" is written "A waB waC".

This does not explain the distribution of <qo> in quire 20, which is frequently paragraph initial and cannot be attaching to the right elements of serials. I realize it may be polysemic, but that must be accounted for.

But also, if The Author is inserting it, it is because he could already parse the list, so there is no problem to solve here. Parsing juxtaposition is a very basic piece of grammar in most languages, but Sinitic languages in particular, so under the hypothesis that this is a language which is grammatically identical to a language he could speak, why would he need to insert information he could understand on the fly?