A key to understand the VMS

[Sam G]

SamG
"Yes, the properties of the VMS text are like those of an unencrypted natural language text, and cannot be explained in any other way that is known and can be demonstrated."

I prefer to think of it as having properties that make it LOOK like unencrypted natural language (Latin, to be exact), especially in the way a, o, and Latin shapes are incorporated into the text.

And interestingly enough, these glyphs that resemble vowels in the Roman alphabet also seem to behave as vowels, in that they occur in every word and delimit groups of 1-2 consonants.  To me that suggests an obvious explanation: they are vowels.

And what other plausible explanation is there, really?  Some unknown and undemonstrated cipher mechanism that magically produces ciphertext with any and all properties we might desire?

But, as I said up-thread (and have been saying all along), it is not structured like natural language, at least not if the spaces are interpreted literally (and even if you try to process the spaces in a different way, the positional rigidity remains).

I disagree that it is overly rigid.  Rigid phonotactic structures are common in many languages.  I think e.g. Mandarin Chinese is probably as rigid as Voynichese or maybe more so, but the issue is that Voynichese is differently rigid.  I don't know of any language that works exactly like Voynichese, but then I don't think that two different languages ever have exactly the same phonotactic structure.