116v blog comment

[Anton]

The "German culture" is perhaps something more or less vague, but I think it can be spoken of "in some sense".

For me, the main argument in favour of that would be not the alleged contemporariness (is that the right word?) of the inscription (which may prove true on the ground of paleography), but just the plain fact that the German text incorporates Voynichese in a seamless way. This just means that the person who knew Voynichese used to use German in his everyday life to the extent that he favoured it for his marginalia.

So either German was his everyday language, or he was massively involved in working with German texts. Like, oftentimes I leave marginalia in English when I work with English texts (technical documentation, for example).

This blatant fact is too often just somehow strangely overlooked.

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