Narration structure as the tiebreaker between cipher & (synthetic) language

[MarcoP]

Provided that there is the narration structure, synthetic language will preserve it in its written form (natural language, obviously, will do that too, but I rule it out offhand for other reasons). On the other hand, cipher may preserve it, but not necessarily will. For example, a simple substitution cipher (which, btw, the VMS is definitely not) does only change individual letters through a pre-defined rule and does not change the order of words. Hence, the narration structure is preserved. 

Hello Anton, I agree with most of what you write, but I could not follow the passage above. How can you say that the Voynich ms definitely is not a simple substitution cipher? I don't think it is a cipher, but since we understand so little of the manuscript, I try to keep an open mind and I try to exclude as little as necessary as definitely impossible. I would like to better understand you views on this specific point.

The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. dates to the same time as the Voynich manuscript: it is a simple substitution cipher using an ad-hoc alphabet. I think that the Voynich manuscript could be a similar cipher, in which the original language was not something trivial as Latin or Arabic, but some weird language that has not been identified yet. Again, this is not my preferred hypothesis, but it does not seem impossible to me.