19-09-2026, 09:58 AM
Reply to ololololo
"Hi
I saw your experiment about creating a phonetic script for the Ingush language. I think this is a very interesting and relevant approach to test the 'Chinese Theory'.
As a native Chinese speaker who studies Classical Chinese, I want to point out something about the Shennong Bencao Jing (SBJ). The text is extremely terse. It doesn't use 'and' (和/及) to connect lists.
If we assume the Voynich author was listening to a spoken language he only partly understood, the 'error rate' for a high-frequency character like '主' (daiin/kaiin/laiin) should be very high. But if he wrote it down in a hurry without understanding, how did he know to systematically omit the '味' (flavor) and '生' (provenance) fields?
I think your experiment could be the key to solve this: if we can find a similar phenomenon in a modern listener (e.g., a person writing down a language they don't speak), it will help us understand whether the VMS author was a 'tape recorder' or an 'interpreter'. Keep up the good work!"
"Hi
I saw your experiment about creating a phonetic script for the Ingush language. I think this is a very interesting and relevant approach to test the 'Chinese Theory'.
As a native Chinese speaker who studies Classical Chinese, I want to point out something about the Shennong Bencao Jing (SBJ). The text is extremely terse. It doesn't use 'and' (和/及) to connect lists.
If we assume the Voynich author was listening to a spoken language he only partly understood, the 'error rate' for a high-frequency character like '主' (daiin/kaiin/laiin) should be very high. But if he wrote it down in a hurry without understanding, how did he know to systematically omit the '味' (flavor) and '生' (provenance) fields?
I think your experiment could be the key to solve this: if we can find a similar phenomenon in a modern listener (e.g., a person writing down a language they don't speak), it will help us understand whether the VMS author was a 'tape recorder' or an 'interpreter'. Keep up the good work!"