The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Amphigorist]

@rikforto thank you for the insights into Classical Chinese.

So if I understand, you do not object to the notion that a reader circa 1400 could understand the SBJ in Classical Chinese, and could translate it line by line into a contemporary language for an author who was not literate in any Chinese language, right? So is the issue that the resulting translation would not retain the syllable by syllable structure of the written text, making matches between the Classical Chinese SBJ and the SPS spurious in any likely dictation scenario?
 
Sorry to ask such basic questions. I am very interested in the conversation, but I am very out of my depth.