VMs: vms - French?

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

OK...

Time once again to ask if I am crazy.  I have been working on trying to get some of the astronomical names to come out somewhat sensible, and decided to try my simple substitution (not quite single substitution, but close) against the first paragraph of f1r to see if anything made sense.  

What came out was a semi-French looking text (if you think of older French where e^tre was still spelled estre, etc).  What really got me going was line 4 - where text came out remarkably like "astres - terrestres" which I think is "astrology" or "horoscope"  in French.

This looks best in a font like Courier.

v) are voynich lines (best as I could derive from a faded f1r
t) is the translated text


f1r.1	
v) fychys     ykal    ar  otaiin    shol   shol   sh*rer   ykos     sholdy	
t) ?esdesti   estrar  ait estrange  ??er   ??er   ??*t?t   streti   ??etales	

f1r.2
v) sory    ckhar    or   kair   chtaiin    char  ain  cth*r    cthar     da*	
t) tietes  ?tr?at   et   tra?t  destrange  deat  a?ge ?str?*t  ?str?at   ala*	

f1r.3
v) syaiir    shety      or   ykaiin    shod   cthoarc     cth     s    dar    aiin	
t) tissant   ???stres   et   estrange  ??eal  ?str?eat?   ?str?   ti   alat   ange	

f1r.4
v) daiin   atchy   otos    roloty     ctchar    daiin   o  okan	
t) alange  astrdes estreti terrestres ?strdeat  alange  e  etrage

f1r.5	
v) *aiiy  chear  cthaiin    cphar    cfhaiin    - yda??shy	
t) *anes  de?at  ?str?ange  ?str?at  ???ange    - sala??es	

my method is like this right now:
a  = a or ai
o  = e or eu
r  = t or tt
l  = r or rr
y  = s or es
t  = str
k  = tr
n  = ge
d  = al
ii = n
ch = de

so "aller" might be "dol", "et" is "or", etc.

Any comments/derisive remarks are welcome





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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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