An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text
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(10-04-2017, 02:50 PM)DonaldFisk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have also worked out, in detail, the general method by which the text must have been generated. 
In brief, the text appears to have been generated using state transition tables. 

Letters are highly predictable within words for the VMS. Therefore the idea to describe words using transition tables or a grammar is not far fetched (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). But that you can describe the words this way doesn't mean that the author of the VMS must have been generated the words this way. 
In the case of the VMS the exceptions are important. For every rule you can define you will also find some exceptions. An example is the glyph [q]. In most cases [q] is the first letter of a word and in most cases [q] is followed by the letter [o]. But this is not alway the case. There are 22 words starting with [oq] and there are 66 words using [qe] instead of [qo] and 6 words using [qa] instead of [qo]. This way beside the word [qokar] (157 times) you can also find the words [qekar] (2 times) and [qakar] (1 times). The problem with this exceptions is that they occur in a systematic way since there is an increased chance that you can find two or more exceptions of the same kind within a short distance on the same page. There are for instance only 22 words with [oq] for the whole manuscript but in line f114r.P2.41 there is a sequence [oqotoiiin oqoeeosain]. There are also only three instances of the word [qeey] but two of this three instances occur on page f112r with only a distance of two lines.

Your test about word order (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) only demonstrates that a word doesn't depend on the previous word. Unfortunately this observation alone is not enough to allow the conclusion "that words are output randomly". It is also possible that a word depends on his position within a line, that a word depends on a word in the previous line or that  a part of a word depends on a part of the previous word. For the VMS it is possible to give examples for each of them: Words ending with [m] are most likely found as last word of a line. There is an increased chance that you can find the same word in the next line in the same position (see the word [daiin] on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Last but not least there is also an increased chance that a word ending with [y] is followed by a word starting with [q].
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