geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[Koen G]

David, while reading up on Yevanic I had much the same questions as the ones you put forward. Yevanic is essentially Greek, and they wrote in Hebrew script precisely because they needed their writings to be in this script.

Now in defense of the principle behind Geoffrey's theory, one could say that Yevanic shows how certain communities were accustomed to writing non-Semitic languages in Semitic script. As you say, there are other examples of this as well.

This might provide some cultural touchstone for Voynichese being a hypothetical language x written in abjad form.

Now I'll be honest, I find it difficult to assess how much freedom your system allows you in interpretation and whether or not it's too much. We've seen systems before which allowed the user to turn any string of Voynichese into virtually any translation.

Your system also allows for a lot of freedom, but I'm not sure if it's in the "still possible" zone. That's why I'd like to see how it handles labels. My reasoning is that the reader of the VM must have been able to understand the labels relatively unambiguously, otherwise there is no point in labelling things.