Question about WW2 radio codes

[ReneZ]

You don't have to be an expert in Chinese to know that there is flexibility in how Chinese syllables are combined, even though there are some systematic rules about how radicals are associated with the main characters... even in this they are nowhere NEAR as rigid as the VMS.

There are of course two possible hypotheses:

1) that the Voynich MS text derives from some written Chinese text.
Such a text could then also be much older than the early 15th C.
In this case, the text would be based on the Chinese characters (shapes) and not on the spoken text.
I agree with the concerns of JKP for such a case. In general it seems extremely unlikely.

2) that the Voynich MS text somehow reflects spoken Chinese text.
This would obviously mean the involvement of a chinese speaker. The text would be 15th century.
In this case the Voynich text would be more similar to Pinyin (with several caveats), and here I see
less of an issue related to the word structure.

There was a long thread about this already, with lots of nice plots by Torsten.