From "decryption" to "translation"

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I think Rene's first exercise in the "Voynich text generation" thread was very instructive in this regard, even though none of us have been able to decipher it yet. The point is, in attempting to compose his text according to the kinds of typical Voynich patterns that you are discussing here, he actually reduced the conditional entropy of his resulting text far *too* much, down to only about 1.2, whereas the Voynich MS itself in Cuva transcription actually has a conditional entropy of about 2.1. (Typical Latin/Italian/German are slightly over 3, and several examples of natural languages are in the 2.4 to 2.6 range.)

I haven't even had time to LOOK at it yet, other than a first glance that told me it wasn't legal Voynichese but it was close.