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RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 26-03-2026
Yeah, I just can't get VMS out of my head… That's what I was afraid of.
The latest findings concern Middle High German / Bavarian.
The spacing pattern:
The transition from y to q occurs only 13 times within a word, but 3,635 times across a space. This fits a Germanic pattern: If -y encodes a verb ending and qo- absorbs the following prepositional phrase, then [...]dy [space] qo is simply standard Middle High German recipe syntax: a verb followed by a prepositional object.
The most common EVA endings are -dy (17.9%) and -ey (10.5%)—together accounting for 28.4% of all words.
In Middle High German, words with verb endings (-en, -er, -nd, -et, -it) make up 26.3% of all words.
28.4% versus 26.3%—almost identical.
This suggests that -dy and -ey encode Middle High German verb forms, not nominal inflections. The space then marks the boundary between a verb and its prepositional object—precisely the dominant structure in medieval German recipe texts!
This is consistent with earlier findings: As previously shown, the frequency of the prefix y- corresponds almost exactly to the frequency of German verbal prefixes (ge-, be-, er-). Now the suffix pattern also points in the same direction.
We have now measured frequency matches across several independent levels—prefixes, suffixes, spacing patterns, word lengths, and article/preposition usage—all of which point to the same language. At a certain point, the accumulation of statistical matches makes a random explanation unlikely.
The VMS behaves statistically like a language—specifically, like Middle High German/bavarian
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - Ruby Novacna - 26-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - eggyk - 26-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 26-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - oeesordy - 26-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - magnesium - 27-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 27-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 27-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 27-03-2026
RE: Why and how the text could be Bavarian - JoJo_Jost - 27-03-2026