Tim King's et al. translation

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I'd put effort into helping design and refine a test for solutions, or some kind of ranking system that indicates the problems the solution does and does not successfully address. But I predict they would come with a set of excuses, for example in this case "we don't master the underlying language enough to translate an entire section by ourselves".

There is no way to force common sense, let alone a prescriptive epistemology (a solution has to pass some tests) on researchers. Working toward the remote prospect of understanding the peculiarities of Voynichese has little appeal compared to the ego-boosting quality of being THE solver (among hundreds, but all the others are wrong of course) by relying on a simple substitution, a generous dose of imagination and subjectivity and ignoring all the (apparently not so well-known) problems.