Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[Jorge_Stolfi]

the point is that I wanted an explanation from you as to how this fits in with the Chinese theory.

OK, forget the Chinese Origin theory for now, until I post more evidence evidence.

But since you created the word-based table of the Sh/Ch/qo correlations (thanks for that!), and I checked into it in some detail, I think we should finish the discussion of this topic.  

Would you agree with the conclusion that the "remote attraction to qo" is not a property of token-initial Sh, but rather of certain common words, like Shedy, that happen to start with Sh?  And that some other common Sh-words show no attraction to qo, or even strong repulsion?

For VBM, especially in the REVA analysis (Eva reverse), this phenomenon isn’t a problem at all—because it doesn’t occur at the token level here, but within words and when read backward, it sort of dissolves.

I still don't understand this point.  If we don't know what causes a statistical "anomaly" -- like a correlation between certain characters in adjacent tokens  -- there is no reason to say that the correlation is "okay" if it manifests in one direction, but "anomalous" or "unnatural" if it mainfests in the opposite direction.

In romance languages, the gender of an adjective must agree with the gender of the noun it modifies; and the gender often determines the last letter.  For example, in Italian one must write "casA biancA" but "vinO biancO".  

Thus, if you analyze letter correlations in an Italian text, you could conclude that "an A at the end of a word attracts an A at the end of the next word".  But, if you only have the letter statistics, you could also say that, vice-versa, "an A at the end of a word attracts an A at the end of the previous word".  

And if you reverse the text (including the letters in each word), so that the examples become "Acnaib Asac" and "Ocnaib Oniv",  the statistics will be the same except that they will say "an A at the start of a word attracts an A at the start of the next word".  Or vice-versa.

So why do you say that the remote attractions that you see in normal Voynichese text "dissolve away" in the reversed text?

All the best, --stolfi