A key to understand the VMS

[Torsten]

Sam G Wrote:
There are many possible linguistic interpretations of such phenomena: reduplication, agreement, poetry or structured prose, etc.

There are two important observations for the VMS. First, all words are similar to each other. Secondly, similar words do co-occur throughout the text.

In natural languages a word normally (cf. poems) is used because of its meaning and not because it is similar to a previously written one. The result that the words are arranged such that they co-occur with similar ones is therefore not compatible with a linguistic system. Moreover similarly spelled words occur frequently one above the other.

To change words which have already been written requires no additional tools.  It is reasonable to assume that with some training it is very efficient to copy a text using the text itself as a source. For doing so it is not necessary to switch between an external source and the text being written. For someone in the early 15th century it would therefore have been possible to use such a method to generate the text of the Voynich Manuscript while writing.